I love words! I am the person who when seated in the boardroom during a meeting often appears to have nothing to say when in fact, I am carefully crafting my thoughts, choosing my words carefully because they are so important to me.

Perhaps it’s just me, but lately there seems to be a “buzz” around mindfulness and meditation. Oprah and Deepak Chopra just offered a Free 21 day mediation experience (which was awesome by the way), seminars seem to be popping up all over the city and recently my best friend attended a mindfulness conference in San Diego.

Here we are, a month or two into 2015, and I wonder how many of us have resolved to no longer make resolutions, or did try again this year only to decide early on that it really wasn’t worth the hard work. We focused this issue on new beginnings. It just sounds better than resolving to do something, quit something or begin something.

The holidays are often about over indulgence. We spend much of our time over eating, over drinking and over spending. January hits and we are racing off to the gym to work off the extra helpings of turkey, we are resolving to skip the $5 coffees to help get our budget back on track and we are doing whatever else comes to mind to make ourselves feel less guilty about enjoying the festive season.

Isn’t it funny that we often find excuses to do things like start a healthy eating regime, join the gym, or look for a new job? We tell ourselves, “I will start eating better on Monday”, or “I can’t possibly join the gym this month because I am going away for a week.” We make up endless excuses of why the timing isn’t right to make a change even when we know the only person we are hurting is ourselves.

Over Christmas and New Years, I heard a lot of talk from people about how 2014 is going to better.