Best Year Ever

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0:19Hello and welcome. This is Dr. Davina Smith. Wherever you're listening from, I'm so glad you're here. Over the next hour, I invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy the uplifting messages and soothing jazz melodies. Today's show is titled The Best Year Ever. Sit back, relax, and be inspired. The best year begins with what you can control. As a new year begins, there's a lot of pressure to make it the best year ever. More goals, more plans, more expectations. But the truth is, the best year doesn't start with everything going right. It starts with focusing on what's actually within your control.

1:05You can't control the world. You can't control people. You can't control what life brings your way. But you can control how you respond. This year doesn't have to be about fixing everything. It can be about choosing wisely, choosing peace, choosing clarity, choosing yourself. The best year begins when you stop trying to control the uncontrollable and start controlling your thoughts, your habits, your attention, and your inner life. That's where real change begins. You are listening to Dr. Davina Stotts. Sit back, relax, and enjoy. I'll be right back.

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18:16Welcome back. You are listening to Dr. Davina Stotts. Today's show is titled The Best Year Ever. Leave the past where it belongs. If you want this year to feel different, something has to stay behind. Not everything from the past needs to come with you. The past has already taught you what it needed to teach you. You don't have to keep reliving it to prove you learned. And the future, it doesn't need you to worry for it to arrive. So much of our energy is spent replaying what's already happened or worrying about what hasn't happened yet. And while our bodies are here, our minds are everywhere else.

18:55This year, practice letting the past be complete. Practice trusting that the future will meet you when it's time. The only place life is actually happening is right here, right now, in this moment. This breath. And when you learn to live here, life begins to feel fuller, lighter, and more meaningful. one moment and one day at a time. You are listening to Dr. Davina Stotts. Sit back, relax, and enjoy.

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36:29Welcome back. You are listening to Dr. Davina's Dots. Today's show is titled The Best Year Ever. Make rest, joy, and inner peace your goal. This year, you don't need to do more. You need to make more. make more time to pause make more time to breathe make more time to notice when your body is asking you to slow down make more time for you make more time to do the things that light you up energize you and make you feel alive make more time to live a life you absolutely love You are listening to Dr. Davina Stotz. Sit back, relax, and enjoy. I'll be right back.

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53:20Welcome back. You are listening to Dr. Davina Stotz. Sit back, relax, and be inspired. I want to remind you to choose yourself every day. If you're looking for a New Year's goal, let this be it. Choose to be the healthiest version of you, not just physically, but emotionally and mentally. Choose joy without guilt. Choose gratitude, even in the most ordinary moments. Pursue yourself this year. Get to know what you need, what restores you, what brings you back to peace. You don't have to become someone new. you're already more than enough this year can be the best year not because everything changes but because your perspective does you show up more present more grounded more kind to yourself you make inner peace your goal you make joy and gratitude a daily practice so let this year be one you finally give yourself permission to live fully right here right now just as you are.

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59:42Thank you for listening to Dr. Davina's Dots. I hope something you heard today helped you slow down and see things from a fresh perspective so you can connect the dots in your life. Until next time, be blessed. Thank you.