A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

It's easy to see and notice what we like in other people. Sometimes, it's not as easy to see the attributes and beauty in ourselves. It's good to see the beauty in others. But sometimes, take a moment and get excited when you notice what's beautiful in yourself, too.

Each life needs its own quiet place.