Ah, you can smell it in the air. The scent of a new year is like the scent of a new car. Its aroma just captivates you and seduces you into opening yourself up to new, unlimited opportunities to live the life you’ve always imagined. Last year, that new car smell faded quickly into a pungent odor. In other words, 2009 didn’t go quite as well as I had hoped. I recently invested my time to figure out why. That time is really like a private moment-of-truth.

My moment-of-truth was the realization that I allowed my creativity, focus and personal will to wander done the road of self-doubt like never before. I am the type of woman who knows exactly what I want and aim to get it. I’ve been this way since I was three. And now a few decades older than three, it was startling for me to meander down the self-doubt road. This year, I vow to hightail it away from the out-of-focus, self-doubt terrain onto my usual path of stealth focus and creative exhibitionism all executed with my signature unyielding tenacity.

My new plan is revisiting exactly what I want to manifest - body, mind and spirit. Since I obviously love jewelry and gemstones, I pulled out my favorite citrine necklace to give me some spiritual anchoring as I embark on my new and improved state of being. As I reread some of citrine’s characteristics, I thought that you might want to know how you can benefit from this knowledge as well. One thing is for certain, I wasn’t the only one on an unwanted path last year. But, then again, we always have control over what we want to manifest.

Enjoy these characteristics of citrine and use its power to give you want you want and new in 2010.

About Citrine
Citrine is typically a lemon to golden yellow that derives from volcanic and other earth activity. That other activity must be magnetic because it is an attractor of abundance and wealth.

Citrine fosters many physical and spiritual attributes to aid its wearer. Its vibrant light energy aids you in areas of clarity, creativity and personal will.

When you need that extra persistence power, that personal will, to really deliver on ideas, citrine’s energy can aid you. If you vacillate between your ideas and courses of action, citrine can bring you the clarity you need to focus and anchor your thoughts to clear actionable steps. You can also spark your imagination through its powers to exert even more creative energy to bring your concepts and visions to fruition.

Happy New Year!

Here’s my necklace (OK I’m wearing three but who’s counting?)