We just turned the corner and started a New Year. 2017. This will be the year of ______________. What is the blank?\u00a0 Well that\u2019s something each of us has to fill in for ourselves. It\u2019s a personal choice. What do we want the year of 2017 to be?\u00a0 Do you want this to be the year of accomplishment, the year of change, the year of love, the year of self-improvement, the year of excitement, the year of overcoming obstacles, the year of accomplishment, or the year of AWESOME!?\u00a0 You pick. It\u2019s your year and it\u2019s your decision\u2026but pick one now because ready or not this year has started!<\/p>\n
As you decide what you want your personal theme for this year to be, don\u2019t let anything that has happened in the past hold you back from thinking big for this New Year ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust because the past didn\u2019t turn out like you wanted it to, doesn\u2019t mean your future can\u2019t be better than you\u2019ve ever imagined.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Nothing that happened yesterday has any impact on what this New Year can be \u2013 yesterday is over and behind you. It\u2019s done. But today\u2026well today is brand new and so is all of 2017\u2026so don\u2019t sit back and wait for 2017 to define what it will be on its own \u2013 you choose what it will be. You set the course. Decide today before you go to bed what the theme of your year is going to be and then write it on a paper and tape it to your mirror. Then write it on another piece of paper and tape it to your car dashboard. Tape it everywhere you need to see it to remind yourself of what this year is going to be for you.<\/p>\n This is SO EXCITING, isn\u2019t it!?! It\u2019s a brand new year! It\u2019s a totally blank canvas waiting to be painted on. It\u2019s a clean sheet of paper waiting to be written on. It\u2019s an empty picture frame just waiting to be filled with pictures of amazing memories. So pick up that paint brush, or go grab that pen, and get started! And don\u2019t forget to include plenty of sparkle and bling \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 \u2026.after all, everything in life better when you add a little sparkle and bling to it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Welcome to 2017, the year of ______________________ (now go fill in your blank!)<\/p>\n ~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We just turned the corner and started a New Year. 2017. This will be the year of ______________. What is the blank?\u00a0 Well that\u2019s something each of us has to fill in for ourselves. It\u2019s a personal choice. What do we want the year of 2017 to be?\u00a0 Do you want this to be the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6659,"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":[1002,632,1021,395,204,393,780,12088,12094,12089,162,12100,91,504,1086,8231,282,873,1171,12095,92,1509,12090,6334,2166,7,10087,364,76,606,12096,158,391,152,1875,104,35,3125,5891,720,330,12097,12093,1031,12099,112,12098,1996,834,3077,5673,12091,12092],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accomplish","tag-accomplishment","tag-amazing","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-awesome","tag-best","tag-better","tag-better-than-youve-imagined","tag-blank-canvas","tag-blank-slate","tag-bling","tag-brand-new-year","tag-change","tag-choice","tag-choose","tag-clean-slate","tag-decide","tag-decision","tag-determine","tag-empty-page","tag-excitement","tag-exciting","tag-fill-in-the-blank","tag-fresh","tag-fresh-start","tag-future","tag-get-started","tag-goal","tag-goals","tag-good","tag-hold-you-back","tag-imagination","tag-imagine","tag-impact","tag-incredible","tag-let-go","tag-love","tag-new","tag-new-beginning","tag-new-beginnings","tag-new-year","tag-over-and-done","tag-overcoming-obstacles","tag-past","tag-pick-a-theme","tag-self-improvement","tag-set-the-course","tag-sparkle","tag-start","tag-write-it-down","tag-yesterday","tag-you-decide","tag-your-choice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619","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=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7620,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions\/7620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}