The New Year is here; a time for another fresh start, marking a time of transformation and anticipation of what is to come. So as we greet 2024, why not make a great start of it as you leave one year behind and look forward to the next? In this episode, Dr. Tim Jordan compiles some inspiring quotes to help you start the new year with a shift in perspective. Join us as we explore wisdom from various sources, offering insights that can fuel your personal and parenting growth journey. Let these quotes serve as guiding lights, encouraging resilience, self-discovery, and a renewed sense of purpose for yourself and your children. Whether you’re navigating challenges or setting exciting goals, this episode is packed with wisdom to inspire and uplift you throughout the upcoming year. Tune in to kick off 2024 with a dose of inspiration to ring in the new year ahead!
Use these inspiring quotes and stories to set intentions for your parenting and personal life for the upcoming year.

• Jordan’s previous podcast on the spiral of beliefs
• Jordan’s previous podcast, Empowering Young Girls: How To Guide Your Daughter To A Fulfilling Life
• Jordan’s previous podcast interview with Angela Santomero, author of the new book, Life Clues: Unlocking the lessons to an exceptional life

Quotes to start the new year, shift your perspective:

• If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. – Mo Williams
• Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. – Byrd Baggett
• Turn your face to the sun & the shadows fall behind you. – Māori
• And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. – Haruki Murakami
• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. – Kahlil Gibran
• Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.
• If you are going through hell, keep going! – Winston Churchill

Take charge of your self-talk and your life:

• Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. – Theodore Vail
• Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up. – Ann Bradford
• Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. – Nido Qubein
• The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but the thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation which is always neutral. It is as it is. – Eckhart Tolle
• You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served. – Nina Simone
• You don’t drown by falling into the water; you drown by staying there. – Edwin Louis Cole
• If you want to change what’s going on around you, change what’s going on within you. – Billy Cox
• To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. – Confucius
• No one needs to be a victim of their own biography. – Kelly
• The way you tell your story to yourself matters. – Amy Cuddy
• To be truly happy and productive, you have to tune out the crowd and listen to the voices that we hear in solitude. – Emerson

Create quiet, alone times for reflection, soul searching, and accessing intuition:

• Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes…including you. – Anne Lamott
• Your cell phone has already replaced your watch, camera, calendar, and alarm clock. Please don’t let it replace your friends and family.
• Down time to daydream: When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer- say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal or during the night when I cannot sleep- it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. – Mozart
• Slow down to connect more deeply: There’s no WIFI in the forest. But I promise you will find a better connection.

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