Welcome to episode 3,020 of your daily guided meditation.

I honor you for going through this week's series, this first week of a brand new year.

You are launching into something fresh and new for yourself.

And as you've explored throughout this week's series, you also realize that you probably will carry with you some things from

the previous year that maybe you'd rather let go of. And you will let go of these things but it can take some time

it's not as though because it's a new year you'll instantly reprogram yourself and with this in

mind you're going to be in a better state to ease yourself into the new year

because you'll have such a better perspective about what embarking on something new is really

all about.

And as I shared with you, one of the main reasons why people feel hopeless or feel as

so they can't really achieve their goals is because they find that it's hard to let go of habits

or thoughts that they still carry with them.

And so they just give up.

They give up sometimes before they even start to see any progress and to reach that state

where you start to gain momentum.

The best way, in fact, to get rid of these negative thoughts or negative influences in your life

is to make sure that you surge ahead with what it is you really want in your life.

And I've shared with you three ways to do that as your challenge to create a word of the year,

to anchor yourself, and then to create a totem to represent who you are.

And I heard from someone, I can't remember if I shared this with you or not,

but the totem is a turtle.

One of your fellow meditators said that this turtle, it looks like a real turtle, but it's not, and he carries it with him

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