It is important to remember that the beginning can be anywhere along the way.

I am terribly fond of greeting cards. When we travel or I am in one of those cute towns with lots of little shops, the things I tend to pick up in those shops are greeting cards and soap. 🤷🏻‍♀️

In fact, I like greeting cards so much that I also purchase them online, occasionally in copious amounts. I’m not talking Hallmark cards, although they make some good ones, but ones from small companies or individual makers.

Some of the cards I keep for myself as motivation, up to and including framing them. Most of them, I scoop up to keep on hand to send to the right person when the circumstance shows up.

The title of today’s post comes from a favorite greeting card from Curly Girl Design, entitled “Beginning.”

Card available from Curly Girl Design.

As I write this, I am celebrating another new year: Rosh Hashanah 5783. It’s the Jewish new year, celebrating the creation of the world and of humankind.

The fact that Rosh Hashanah falls on the new moon means that it moves around. This year, it began at sundown on Sunday, September 25th, just after the new moon in Libra. For Jews, it’s a time of celebration and of returning to G-d and community. A time to set intentions for the year to come, and to reflect on our lives and how we want to live them.

The holiday can come up on a seemingly random day in September—a reminder that the beginning can, in fact, be anywhere along the way.

That is true even if it’s not your religion’s holiday, or even if you don’t hold with any particular set of religious beliefs.

Each day is an opportunity to begin again.

It’s a good time to ask yourself the question posed by Mary Oliver at the end of her poem, “The Summer Day”: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do/ with your one wild and precious life?” (Read the full poem on the Library of Congress website.)

Whether it’s the start of a week, or a month, or a new year (however that is measured for you—I can think of at least three that I observe), each day is a change to make a new start. To change your life, and to change how you move through this world.

It's a good day to create time and space for yourself, and for your success. To become the person you truly are at your core, or change in ways that suit you. A good day to embrace your own “muchness” (to call back to my blog post from two weeks ago, “What to do when you’ve lost your muchness.”).

If you’d like to chat about what that might mean for you, I’m offering a free group coaching session next Thursday, October 6th at 1 p.m. EDT. If you’re already on my email list, you’ll be getting that link tomorrow. If not, sign up here so you get the email. As a bonus, you get a free guided visualization to help you spend some time with future you in your home (which may or may not look like where you live right now).