Okay so it's the third week into the new year and I have officially settled into it. I'm watching my nutrition (not as well as I'd like, but watching it) and I am cross training between core work outs, indoor treadmill running and outdoor walking/jogging. Business is better and I am happy.  I am happy largely because I am learning how to keep on learning.  You know that saying "You learn something new each day?" Well that rings so true. If you stop and pay attention and live in each moment  with conscious awareness that you are a human that has flaws and makes mistakes, than you can embrace learning and began to grow from it. Each new lesson learned can broaden who you are as a person. These are some things that I have learned so far this year:

• Comparing myself to others is time spent wasted.
• Your best friends may not always take your side even when you think they should.
• What you think may be encouragement to others may be discouragement in their eyes.
• Communication sets you free and honesty is the key to it.
• People are attracted to negativity only because they crave positivity.
• I will never receive everyone's full approval because I will always offend someone.
  
• Sometimes a judgement is a judgement in the disguise of an opinion.
• Perception is everything yet nothing.
  
• Running a smart business is an art.
• Ignorance is not bliss...turning the other cheek to it is.
  

Wow...all of this and its only January 18th! I wonder what else is in store for me? Feel free to comment on the lessons you have learned in this early 2012...I'd love to read them as well as read how your resolutions are going.

Smiles,

Ava