Hi everyone who tunes in here. The family Christmas Party was so much fun yesterday. I have missed my brothers and sister and their families, my Dad, and my cousin Sharon and her family. When you live a ways a way these visits happen infrequently and times like this I realize how much I miss. There is nothing quite like the unconditional love of family.

In the last few posts here at Explore Life Journal I have shared affirmations that would be helpful to your self-esteem and the idea of stepping back or stepping aside to grow your ability to be objective and impartial. These are great tools to enhance you life as this year comes to an end and as 2011 sits in the wings in waiting for an endless number of possibilities.

What are you getting certain about, what do you want to make happen or create in 2011? What do you have to do to make things turn out the way you want them to? What self-doubt or what limiting story about yourself do you need to relinquish? In the next 10 days or so, what is in you that needs to release, what is holding you back from having the life you want?

It has never been the circumstances that hold you back, it has always been you, your thoughts, you criticism, you sense of not being ok in some way. Maybe 2011 is the year to remove yourself from your own way and allow yourself the life you want. What if this game of life is up to you not anyone else?

A careful self-examination would serve you well and has the potential to greatly enhance your experience of living. 10 days to go to let go, to release the mental binds that tie you.

Back to visiting with family and I will return to writing and posting here soon.