Happy New Year! We made it! This is the first time that I'm in your inbox for 2017. It feels so good. I figured I'd kick off the new year by letting you know why I do what I do. It wasn't easy deciding to take this path, but there's something important that I want you to know. It's why I do what I do and why I love it. Sometimes, you gotta set the fear aside and do what your soul calls you to do.

Very seldom are our mistakes, hiccups, and detours off the traditional path, celebrated. As we go through life and experience the backlash of not getting it right, I think it does something to us. It has us believe that if we mess up, fall, or if we are not up to par, then we are unwanted, unloved, and unworthy. That belief, then has us get into a "perfectionist" mindset. Here's the piece that I believe may soothe that perfectionism.