Endings, beginnings, changes, and the same old, same old — where does your spirit lie? Where do your resources guide you? Do you envision change as moving forward, or do you visualize change as scary, fearful, and undesirable?

Here, you begin a new year filled with hope for the future. A new decade begins whether you’re ready for it or not. If you haven’t released the old baggage that’s been weighing you down, you’ll inevitably carry it forward into 2020.

It would be very challenging to expect to enter 2020 with 0 percent baggage. But there’s always time to unburden yourself with the excess weight of discontent, guilt, shame, distress, fear, anxiety, and despair. The new year is all about renewal and specific rituals to resolve to do better, be better, and look better.