Truth be told, I hate New Year’s Eve.  It’s my LEAST favorite holiday because I’m such a sentimental kind of girl.  I HATE saying goodbye.  I have to fight against keeping every little thing my son has ever drawn/made/touched in his life.  But the following list?   This I got down.  The people in your life you need to shut the door to in 2015.  You’re welcome.  🙂

People you should ERASE in to the New Year:

1. Disloyal people. Erase them.  If you don’t have loyalty, the relationship is not worth keeping, period.    Easy-peasy.

2. Everyone uses one another to some degree and that’s usually ok if it’s reciprocated.  But if you have someone in your life that just takes and takes and takes, walk, walk, walk away.  You are worthy of some, “right back atcha.”

3. People who hurt or belittle you. If you have someone in your life that hurts you, you are reminded of how much you care about them.  Face it, if you didn’t care, they would have no power over you.  Challenge yourself to let go a little.  You may find that you are happier without them.  Someone may start making you feel GOOD if you just shut that door, another one will open.  I promise.

4. Anyone who lies to you all the time. Do I need to go any further with this one?

5. People who just make you feel badly about YOU when you’re around them. Maybe you can’t put your finger on it.  Maybe they don’t lie to you, maybe they are loyal, maybe they don’t use you, maybe they tell you the truth all the time, but they just have a negative vibe.  As a beautiful poet who we lost in 2014 once said, and I’m just taking the last part, “………. People will never forget how you made them feel.”  If they make you feel bad, just don’t invest your time anymore.  Again, it’s about opening the door to someone else.

Another suggestion for 2015:  Create a jar or box of notes of the POSITIVE things that happen to you on a daily basis.  Then, on the days that you don’t feel very positive, re-read them.  It’s all in the perspective and attitude.

Happy, healthy New Year 2015!!!

Sarah