Writer. Urban yogi.
This is the heart of yoga and meditation.
You can start over in every new breath. You’re brand new every time you inhale. Every exhale, a letting go.
Doesn’t have to be the new year. Doesn’t have to be January 1st.
So don’t get tripped up on the New Year’s resolution bullshit. Every inhalation can be a new year. You can always just leave that last one behind, and begin again.
My favorite mantra of the last few years. We can thank Taoism for this one. 
Be like water. 
Go with the flow.
Don’t get attached to one place, or state. 
When you bump into something hard (say, a rock mid-river) stay malleable, take a deep breath, and just flow amiably around it. 
Pour your whole self into the space you’re in, whatever the size. 
Stay soft.
Shapeshift to suit the season (ice, water, steam) — but always stay elementally the same. 
Bend, don’t break.
Rinse off the dust. 
Nurture the living. 
Stay close to things that grow. 