{"id":3824,"date":"2013-09-16T00:24:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T06:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2013-09-16T00:24:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T06:24:38","slug":"the-first-day-of-the-rest-of-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/the-first-day-of-the-rest-of-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Day of the Rest of Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was my 42nd<\/sup> birthday, which means that today is the first day of the rest of my life!\u00a0 And if you think about it, for every one of your reading this blog, today is the first day of the rest of your life as well – and you didn\u2019t even have to have a birthday for that :).<\/p>\n

As I sat eating my fabulous Chinese food for my birthday dinner I broke open my fortune cookie and the fortune read \u201cDuring this year your greatest wish will come true.\u201d and I was like \u201cHow perfect is that to read on your birthday!!!\u201d \u00a0And I had to do a little happy dance inside\u2026you know the one\u2026.scooby dooby\u2026shooby wooby\u2026.(don\u2019t act like you have never done the happy dance before!).<\/p>\n

So the truth is that it was just a fortune cookie saying and many of you are thinking \u201cyeah, right\u2026like that will actually come true\u201d, but guess what \u2013 IT WILL come true and the reason why is because when I read it I decided to believe it will happen.\u00a0 I even expect it to happen, and I am willing to work to make it happen, and therefore it will.\u00a0 Some may think that sounds a little altruistic but the fact is that I have seen it happen time and time again in my life \u2013 I believe that a wish will come true, I work for it, and it does.\u00a0 Many refer to that as the power of positive thinking, or the law of expectation, or The Secret.\u00a0 I refer to it as faith and hope combined with action.\u00a0 I have faith it will happen and that gives me hope.\u00a0 Then I combine that with taking action that will take me in the direction needed to make it happen. I do everything in my own power to make my dreams come true and then I leave the rest to God, having faith that He will make whatever wish is best for me come true.\u00a0 I also trust that He knows what wish I should make, even more than I do, because He knows everything and He never gets it wrong.\u00a0 \u00a0So ultimately if I do my best and trust Him then I am guaranteed to have my greatest wish come true!<\/p>\n

Today is the first day of the rest of all of our lives.\u00a0 Today we can start fresh, putting the past behind us with all its mistakes and all its regrets, and we can start over.\u00a0 We can start today being the person most want to be in our life.\u00a0 We can write down our goals for the future of what the rest of our life will look like (don\u2019t forget to take those and make them into a goal poster because as you know, those are magic!).\u00a0 We can shake off past hurts and forgive past offenses and let go of bad feelings.\u00a0 We can start fresh in every aspect of our life.\u00a0 What an exciting thought that is.\u00a0 What an amazing opportunity to start a new race in life.\u00a0 And this time we can start with all the wisdom of our past lessons learned to help guide us more smoothly ahead.\u00a0\u00a0 What an incredible day today is going to be \u2013 the very first day of the rest of our lives!\u00a0 Let\u2019s make it AMAZING!!!<\/p>\n

~Amy <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was my 42nd birthday, which means that today is the first day of the rest of my life!\u00a0 And if you think about it, for every one of your reading this blog, today is the first day of the rest of your life as well – and you didn\u2019t even have to have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2161,664,500,46,1861,1241,251,2163,2164,419,63,224,163,89,219,178,51,93,2162,743,2168,2166,189,7,364,76,29,65,2172,55,180,231,103,1016,464,2171,232,64,35,728,2175,1031,1488,153,2169,2167,2173,283,834,2174,2165,149,2170,866,418],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2161","tag-action","tag-appreciation","tag-attitude","tag-attract","tag-attraction","tag-balance","tag-begin","tag-beginning","tag-birthday","tag-blessings","tag-confidence","tag-courage","tag-dance","tag-dream","tag-faith","tag-family","tag-fear","tag-first-day-of-the-rest-of-your-life","tag-forgive","tag-fortune-cookie","tag-fresh-start","tag-friends","tag-future","tag-goal","tag-goals","tag-god","tag-gratitude","tag-greatest","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-hope","tag-hurt","tag-journey","tag-joy","tag-law-of-attraction","tag-lessons","tag-life","tag-love","tag-mistakes","tag-offense","tag-past","tag-perfect","tag-positive","tag-positive-thinking","tag-race","tag-regrets","tag-right","tag-start","tag-start-again","tag-start-over","tag-success","tag-the-secret","tag-wisdom","tag-wish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}