Let 2017 be your egotistical year. The year you quit listening to the howling insecurities in your head, the year you quit listening to the whispers of everyone else around you, as well as the year you quit attempting to please everyone but yourself.
Let 2017 be the year you quit telling yourself you can’t do it. The year you quit telling yourself that you aren’t worth that occupation, or that lad, or that life.
Let 2017 be the year you determine that you’re worthy.
Let it be 365 days of focusing on you. 365 days where every minute and hour may be spent turning off your negative ideas, even when times get tough. Let it be the time at which it is possible to look closely at yourself in the mirror every darn day and appreciate your body for living, and for working. And it let it be the time in your own life at which you are able to look at yourself as well as say yes, ‘I ‘m something to be seen and I ‘m someone worth being looked at’.
Let 2017 be the year you quit being so scared of beaming your own light. Let it be the year you begin listening to your gut instincts, rather than blowing off how you really feel. Let 2017 be the year you start putting yourself first in line. And let it be the year you shut out the echoes of your past, telling you you aren’t good enough. !
And let 2017 be the year you become deaf to negativity. !
Let 2017 be the year you do what you would like. Let it be the year you drop everything and go, allow it to be the year you move to a brand new city and begin your life over, allow it to be the year you kiss girls and boys with no reluctance, allow it to be the year you begin a fresh occupation with enthusiastic self-assurance, allow it to be the year you tell those folks to get lost when they point out your flaws, and let it be the year you inform the people that have consistently been there for you, that you adore them. !
Let 2017 be the year you lift your middle finger high in the heavens at everyone that calls you waste.
Let 2017 be the year you wash away your sorrows from years before. Let it be the year you finally can start again, awaken your dead bones, and restart your pulse. Let it be the year you quit looking back, and begin looking forward.
Let 2017 be the year you do things for yourself. Let it be the year you walk firmly and loud towards your aims, and towards a better life. Let it be the year you quit your uncertainties from even penetrating your head as you climb to new occasions and new challenges. And let it be the year you climb that mountain, without anxiety you will drop. !
Let 2017 be the year you make errors and learn from them. Let 2017 be the year you fail, but never ever quit striving. Let 2017 be the year you quit being so scared of messing up, and let those errors become days of regrowth and reincarnation. Let 2017 be the year you look at errors as new chances to be successful.
Let 2017 be the year you let go. The year you let go of self hatred. The year you let go of that one man who won’t ever love you like you love them. Let it be the year you let go of your self-shame and body insecurities. Let it be the year you let go of broken promises from yesteryear, and let go of those individuals who were never there for you. !
Let 2017 be the year you find out the best way to love yourself. Let it be the year you’ll be able to look yourself in the eye and see the beauty that everyone else sees in you. Let it be the year you handle yourself how you really deserve to be handled.
And let it be the year you actually live, for yourself. Not anyone else. Only you. 
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