So here’s the real question, especially as a new year opens before us: what happens if we don’t care enough about ourselves to write something new? What if we quietly decide we’re not worth the effort of change? Does that make us “negative people”? Absolutely not. There is no such thing as a negative person. There are only approaches to life that may be less inspired. Electricity isn’t labeled good when it lights a room and bad when it shocks someone. It’s simply power in motion. And so are we. 

We are thinking centers of Divine Intelligence, choosing—moment by moment—what gets written into the record of our lives. Sometimes we forget how much we’ve already written. Sometimes the distance we’ve traveled doesn’t feel all that impressive. And in those moments, life can feel dull. We might even feel a little bored with ourselves. Creativity feels like work. Inspiration feels optional. Why bother? 

And then—almost out of nowhere—something shifts. A thought lands. A feeling stirs. Energy returns. Faith rises again. We start thinking in new directions, and suddenly the story begins to move forward. That “something” wasn’t random. It was the result of inner work already done—work we may not remember doing, but work that was completed nonetheless. 

So don’t let your mind give up on itself. And if it ever seems like it has, don’t panic. You’re not broken. You’re not negative. You’ve simply exercised your spiritual freedom in a way you’ll probably later call “less inspired.” So what? That’s between you and your own soul. No explanations required. 

Here’s the only thing to remember: you never stop writing in the book. Something is always being entered. So why not make even a short chapter—just a paragraph, just a sentence—that reflects something good? And if a part of you says you don’t deserve good, remember this: your worth has never been based on what you’ve done or failed to do. Your worth is based on what you are. You are God expressing as you. 

And here we are, standing at the threshold of a brand-new year. What a perfect moment to consciously author something new.