What the HECK?!

Elizabeth O’Carroll
4 min readDec 21, 2021

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Where did 2021 go?

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” ~Emily Dickinson

The new year is a time of opportunity; a time when people take a moment and look back on their life so far and decide what’s next. What have you learned from this past year? How has your understanding of your own self and others become more nuanced? How can you use what you’ve learned to help others? Opening doors and welcoming the ecstatic experience is one of the best ways to enrich our lives. We owe it to ourselves to embrace opportunity: to learn new skills, try new things, or explore different points of view.

With the new year upon us, we tend to reflect on the previous one and consider how we might reinvent ourselves. We evaluate what we’ve learned, who we’ve met, and all the not-so-pleasant experiences that have given us character. Of course, everybody goes about this in their own way, but what’s similar is that we often muse about our future and hope for a better one.

It is a time when we often decide to revamp ourselves. It’s a good time to realize that we have just begun a new year and a new chapter of our lives, and we may want to create a few resolutions that enable us to move ahead toward the fulfillment of our dreams. This journey may not be easy, but it’s all about taking charge of our lives and striving for an ongoing self-improvement.

It’s not about what happened to you but how you deal with it and make the best use of it. We must realize that every year we can refresh ourselves. Every day offers an opportunity to make small and do-able modifications that add up to dynamic results.

Over the course of a year, we are always shifting, and moving. This year what can you learn from these differences? Take a look at your life right now. What kind of amendments will it take to get you closer to where you want to be?

What do you want to do differently to enrich your life? Where have you explored yourself, and where can you go? Can we shape our own lives? How do our experiences help us expand and deepen our sense of self? How does starting a new year give us the opportunity to give us a new lease on life? And for people who want to make a difference.

I know that you’ve got great potential for growing yourself, however, being stuck in the same place and making the same mistakes is no good. Don’t do it to yourself. Tear off the page and start fresh, YOU are the author of your life!

The year is coming to an end, and now’s the time to decide what you will do to live a happier life in the next year. Most people are not willing to take that kind of risk in their life. Moreover, they don’t want to take the steps to reawaken themselves to brand new ways of going about life, rather than the proverbial hamster wheel. To live a life with purpose and ON purpose, change is the fuel. There isn’t a better time than now.

I believe in you…now, get out there and conquer your life! I will do the same!

Happy-Prosperous-Healthy and Abundant in all things amazing — 2022!

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Elizabeth O’Carroll
Elizabeth O’Carroll

Written by Elizabeth O’Carroll

Avid life “experiencer!” Masters in Education, Rehabilitation Counselor, Ministry of Metaphysics, Author & solo world traveler. Learning, loving & evolving! xxx

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