NEWSLETTERS

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Hendrix January 2006 GoatNotes
 
"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less."
-Norman Mailer
 
"What do sad people have in common?
It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship.
What is the beginning of happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that."
- Hafiz

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I must admit, I was overjoyed the minute the second hand on my crusty ol' Timex (with indiglo!) gave 2005 the boot. Having spent the majority of my year getting my health back together ( http://www.terrihendrix.com/june05.html ), paying medical bills, managing finances so I could afford to swim in the Texas Health Risk Pool (at least our state has one), personal relationships, and career issues, I managed to get my goat back on with hooves in tact. On New Years Eve, due to high winds and California getting all of our rain for the month of December, a burn ban was in such force that the one lone firework we saw spatter across the sky a few blocks away, was soon followed by police sirens and search lights. Even still, I felt fireworks inside my heart (or it could have been just indigestion due to the mass quantity of queso and chips I consumed) in readiness of January and the self perceived clean slate that a new year embodies.
 
As the last seconds of 2005 ticked away, I thought about that day's journal entry. I'd written about rediscovering my sense of purpose even though due to post holiday junk food (and pumpkin pie) consumption I felt more in tune to my sense of "porpoise." I'd been inspired by an interview I'd heard on CNN's "Larry King Live," with Tony Robbins. "Wherever focus goes energy flows" he said. Going on from there, Robbins went on to talk about one's sense of purpose and how it was the driving force behind the guts (in spite of the queso) it took to whip one's health, relationships, finances, and career into shape. He then gave a link to his online free counseling on the subject. "Free?" I was all over it by the shows conclusion. And by New Years Eve, everything I'd learned at Tony Robbin's site had become a staple of the final week of December's journal entries.
 
Unbeknownst to me, I needed a wee bit of guidance to see me into the next chapter of my life. And, I'm admitting it in hopes that you too, if you can find the time, will venture to the site, listen to what he's got to say (fyi: sometimes he talks about himself too much and you can't fast forward it), and print out the free tools. I mean, what have you got to lose? It's free.
 
I read somewhere that "while one holds a grudge, others are out dancing." I've always liked that saying because it can be applied towards past struggles too. I think maintaining a sense of purpose helps undermine dwelling on the past and enables a better, clearer future.
 
As I closed the coffee stained cover of my 2005 journal, I had a smile on my face, swept the dog hair under the couch (my version of cleaning house), and soon found myself surrounded by friends on New Years Eve, howling at the moon with my dogs, and welcoming in the new year ... with a newfound sense of purpose.
 
 
Happy Trails,
Terri Hendrix

(C)(P) THM Music January 2006

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