Yahoo! A new post from the illustrious Tama Kieves, author of This Time I Dance! Creating The Work You Love. This week Tama inspires us with powerful tips on how to own your mojo into the new year. Thanks, Tama!

This year don't set hollow goals or inflated ones, ones that will make up for every choice you didn't make before. That's like getting out a whip-- and calling it a rose. This year I want you to cultivate a power and presence within you that allows you to choose your good all the time, that takes every circumstance of your life and makes it a crucible that uses all of you. You are so much more than one year can offer. You are so much more than a few paltry achievements, even if they sound like the moon to you.

Please welcome back the extraordinary Tama Kieves, life coach, career coach, Pink goddess, and author of THIS TIME I DANCE!: Creating the Work You Love. Today Tama discusses how to acknowledge, honor, and use our gifts - and what happens when we don't. A brilliant reminder to tap into what truly moves you. Thanks, Tama!

I am afraid of failing

I talked to a woman who had been very gifted in music, but who hadn't pursued it as an adult. "I am afraid of failing," she said, but as we talked further, she admitted in the quiet tones of held back truth, that she felt like a failure now. She felt tired and angry, out of sorts with her life. I don't blame her. It takes more effort to create a life you don't want than to create the life you crave.

Please welcome back Pink Goddess Tama Kieves, author of This Time I Dance: Creating the Work You Love. She speaks to us today about the oft-forgotten necessity of mothering ourselves -- self-care to a T, Pinkies! Enjoy, and many thanks as always to Tama!

I have had to learn how to mother myself in this lifetime. I love my mother, more so these days than ever before, but for many years I felt like I got the short end of the umbilical cord. Like many of us, I didn’t get the movie mother in this lifetime, the tireless cheerleader, the fierce cub-protector, or the one who listened deeply to all my secret places and saw colors in me, I had yet to see. That mother was on back order when I was placing my cosmic selection. Instead, I got someone who hadn’t exactly read the manual, and I know now, deserved and needed a mother herself.

But I have become a great mother to myself.

Dearest Pinkies, please welcome back Tama J. Kieves, author of This Time I Dance: Creating the Work You Love. Tama's given us generous permission to re-post the wise words in her monthly newsletter, "Trusting the Journey Times." This one is altogether too timely. Thanks again, Tama - we love you (no foolin')!