Your year is complete, mine, too. Was there a word or a particular month that resonated with you as an area that you wanted to focus on? One thing grabbed hold for me when writing this book: I found myself sharing my thoughts and ideas with my kids (they really loved the whole “Thank-You Experiment”) so I am going to pursue the development of A Year of Inspired Living for Teens. I am excited to work through this book a second time, incorporating much smaller chapters and figuring out how to get it on Snapchat (I mean seriously I doubt they will read it if I don’t 
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A really big month for me turned out to be December. The faith chapter was literally like twenty pages prior to cutting it down. There was so much I could say about it, so much I had heard and witnessed about the value of faith in both good times and bad. Faith, well, it sort of took hold, not in a conversion type banging on doors, handing out pamphlets sort of way, but in a way that made me think, Imagine if I focused on a year of faithful living. This thought has inspired me to continue my writing journey and I hope you will all join me in my next yearlong adventure when I share with you A Year of Faithful Living. Finding faith in good and bad times.
What about you? Did this year of inspiration take hold and change something for you? Are you being more kind, less angry? Are you evolving in your existing relationship rather than looking to fall in love with someone new? Are you reframing the bad occurrences in your life so that you aren't viewing yourself as a victim? How about playing? Have you joined a team or taken a surfing lesson? I really pray that this book opened space in your life for some transformation and that you take the things that surfaced for you into the next year, and the year after that. In the end, I hope that every year you live will be an inspired one. I also invite you to join me on my journey of inspired living and follow me on my website, kellymcgrathmartinsen.com and on my Facebook page, Author Kelly Martinsen.
The happiest people don't have everything they
just make the best of everything.
—Unknown