This week is about being a glow-getter and I realized that maybe you need a little help to get you over the hump of getting started!

To identify your goals you have to know what’s important to you, who you really are and what’s holding you back.

Today I’m celebrating beauty, the beauty all around us but more importantly, within us; recognizing what makes us beautiful individuals and what makes us glow from the inside.

Today would have been my mom’s 71st birthday. This is one of my favorite pictures of her and I keep a copy by my desk. It was taken 30 years ago and I’m the same age as her in this photo. That feels completely weird to say, that anything that feels so close to my heart could be three decades old.

Today I want to talk about our hearts, and opening them to change. Did you know that the heart develops before the brain? It is our first source of energy. We don't have consciousness yet, but it establishes a knowing within us.

A common theme I'm hearing (and experiencing) is feeling like we're in a low point. The celebration of the holidays (though different this year) still brought something to look forward to, even if it was just putting 2020 behind us. The days are feeling long and the year stretching out endlessly before us. The optimism and hope we carried as we set our resolutions is wearing thin. We're feeling that sense of depression and anxiety, whispering sweet terror like "I thought things would be different by now" or "How am I going to keep going?"

I’m starting this month being more deliberate about things. About how I spend my time, how I take care of myself, how I share with others. One big focus for the month is sleep. The idea sparked from a free month-long group challenge I joined about getting enough sleep and getting up earlier and I’m already starting to notice a couple changes.

It made me feel a sense of melancholy for the ability to make plans to go, really anywhere, especially by air. I sighed a little as I thought of who could be on board and imagining sitting in the airplane seat, looking out the window; a journey in a state of transition, just beginning or ending. It reminded me of times I’ve sat there looking out an airplane window, thinking in my own world, watching the world come into view, trying to make sense of our approach path and enjoying that bit of magical unknown.