The NEW YEARS DAY quote

So with all the new years resolutions I think we have a responsibility to really look at ourselves and think again about what our real responsibility is to ourselves in the new year and what we have to change and adjust within ourselves to get what we deserve out of this thing called life in the new year! And so I leave you with this poem excerpt that changed me some 5 years ago and helped me realize that my competition was not my fellow singers but it was my self! I was my biggest competition, fear, road block, as well as my key to success. As a producer, you are always your biggest competition, and author of your own destiny. Happy New Years Everyone!

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

-----Marianne Williamson

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