New Year, New Me...??

I have always been inspired by the phrase "New Year, New You". I have taken it as permission to try something new, to become someone that I have always wished to be or to simply become better than I am.

However, for some reason or another, I am now a bit bothered by this phrase as today starts another new year. Why is it that toward the end of each year, I look back and feel just a small sense of inspiration but most of all, I feel a sense of failure and frustration???

I think back to the things that I told myself that I would accomplish or complete, dedicate energy to and that I wanted to overall become a "better" person. Why do we continue to tell ourselves that we have to be a "new" person when we should just focus on being who we already are?

I am not against setting goals for yourself (which I am terrible at doing) or saying that there are things that could be improved or focused upon for the upcoming year. I am merely saying that we don't have to become someone NEW to become what we are intended to be.

I wholeheartedly believe that we are meant to live a certain life, to come across certain people, to make a difference in a way that no one else possibly could, but this is all because of the person that you already are, not the person you think you should become.

I don't think we need to focus on becoming someone "new" but merely remind ourselves that we are already someone and need to be that and that only.

New phrase for myself: New Year, New Outlook on You