A fresh start.  A new beginning.  A blank slate.  A new year.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.  Whatever you may feel uneasy about in your past, you get the opportunity to start over today with a brand new year.  You cannot change the past, but you can make the future different . . . one fresh day at a time.

 Edith Joy Pierce says it this way:  “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”

Get a journal or a notepad or just a blank piece of paper if that is all you have.  Begin to brainstorm about all you want in your life.  Don’t think about it much, just write what comes to your mind as fast as you can for 10 minutes.

Now review your list and put a check mark beside the things you can stretch your mind around achieving during the next year.  This is the Introduction for your book of 2018.

Next, make a separate list of your 2018 desires, leaving space after each one.  Go back and list under each item the small steps necessary to achieve the item.  Each 2018 item is a chapter title.  The name of each chapter, with the small steps written below it, becomes your outline.

Now, begin writing your book of 2018 by taking each of the small steps.  Each chapter will not be completed all at one time.  They won’t be completed in the order you have them listed.  However, if you consistently take the small steps on your outline every day during the year, you will have your book written by the end of the year.

Actually, you will complete your book by the end of the year no matter what.  If you choose to act on the steps that take you toward the life you want, your book will look similar to your outline.  If you don’t work from your outline, your book will look quite different.  It may not even be in writing.  It will, however, be your 2018.

What do you want in 2018?  Begin now to write your book so you can live . . . your life to the fullest.