\u201cThe best day of your life is the one on which<\/p>\n
you decide your life is your own.<\/p>\n
No apologies or excuses.<\/p>\n
No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.<\/p>\n
The gift is yours \u2013<\/p>\n
it is an amazing journey \u2013<\/p>\n
and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.<\/p>\n
This is the day your life really begins.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Bob Moawad<\/p>\n
This Friday we begin an entirely new year. January 1st<\/sup> 2016. It will be a brand new, untarnished, clean slate..it will be the very first blank page of your 2016 story. You can make this upcoming year anything you want it to be. You can accomplish anything you choose to accomplish. You can make it average, or you can make it AMAZING!<\/p>\n All you have to do is recognize that your life is your own. And the quality of this New Year\u2019s journey is totally in your hands to determine what to do with it. Don\u2019t just sit back and let the year happen to you \u2013 set goals, make a plan, DECIDE what you want! Then determine the best way to GO GET IT! You have the ability to MAKE IT HAPPEN!<\/p>\n Too often in life we take things as they come, just being tossed about in a directionless ocean. It doesn\u2019t have to be that way. We do have the ability to choose for ourselves. We just have to put our fears and doubts aside, ask ourselves what we truly want to have our year be, sit down and write out our goals of what we are going to accomplish, and then decide to GO FOR IT.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know about you but I plan to make 2016 ABSOLUTELY EPIC! BEST YEAR EVER!!!<\/p>\n I hope you decide to do the same!<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours \u2013 it is an amazing journey \u2013 and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76,"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":[8229,1021,8227,8233,8235,4174,8239,3432,8232,1086,8231,282,8223,97,555,8236,175,8237,3112,1575,30,220,8234,364,365,76,3064,5353,1353,836,330,8224,8225,762,8226,1193,8222,8228,8230,8238],"class_list":["post-6193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-8229","tag-amazing","tag-amazing-journey","tag-anything-you-want-to-be","tag-as-they-come","tag-average","tag-best-year-ever","tag-blame","tag-blank-page","tag-choose","tag-clean-slate","tag-decide","tag-decide-your-life-is-your-own","tag-decisions","tag-direction","tag-directionless","tag-do-it","tag-doubts","tag-epic","tag-fears","tag-gift","tag-go-for-it","tag-go-get-it","tag-goal","tag-goal-setting","tag-goals","tag-january-1","tag-lean-on","tag-life-journey","tag-make-it-happen","tag-new-year","tag-no-apologies","tag-no-excuses","tag-quality","tag-rely","tag-responsible","tag-the-best-day-of-your-life","tag-this-is-the-day-your-life-begins","tag-untarnished","tag-write-goals-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193","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=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6195,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions\/6195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}