It shouldn’t be so easy.

For the past six weeks, this has been my morning routine: I wake up without the aid of an alarm clock around 6 a.m. Sometimes, I read. Sometimes, I watch the morning news. I eat a leisurely breakfast, shower. I get to work well before 9 a.m. And I do it all with a sense of peace.

All because I now believe that I am a morning person.

They say once you have done something consistently for 30 days, it becomes a habit, so I feel I am now at a point where I can stop wondering when I will snap out of this. And so it is time to move onto my second New Year’s Revolution.

This one feels more challenging, right from the start. This one feels like reaching as far back as I can remember to change the mind of a young woman who never really saw herself as attractive or special in any particular way. It was no one’s fault, it was no one’s responsibility, only the result of a thousand things I heard and read and saw, and continued to believe. I grew up with loving parents who were proud of me, I grew up with teachers and other adults who supported me. Still, I made countless choices to affirm the negative, reject the positive. I have too often believed the worst about myself, then acted on my belief.

And that stops, today.

New Year’s reVolution 2

I am a beautiful, healthy woman.

Every day, I make healthy choices in the way I move, the foods I eat, the thoughts and emotions I embrace. My body is a gift from my Creator, beautiful and precious in every way. I treat it with respect and loving care.

I choose to embrace loving thoughts of myself and others, while letting negative thoughts go. I choose the way I see myself.

I am a beautiful, healthy woman.