Have you ever noticed how numbers dominate our thinking? We literally live by numbers. Hold old are we? What is our height? Our weight? How long have we been married? How many marriages? How many children do we have? Where are we in the birth order of our siblings? What is our house worth/ number of bathrooms and bedrooms/ square footage? How much do we earn? What year is the car we drive? How many trips have we taken? And on and on.

What’s that all about? Have we reduced the definition of who we are and our value to humanity to a series of numbers?

Would we feel different if we didn’t know our birth date? How wealthy would we be if we didn’t fix a number to our sense of abundance? How healthy would we be if we simply ate right, exercised and didn’t focus on the scale in our bathrooms?

Do you really look at the core of who you are rather than where you fit in the numbers game?

In this new year, it would be a good time to ask yourself: How do I determine my self-worth? How do I allow others to place a value on me? How do I define happiness/ contentment/ success/ belonging? If all your answers come up as numbers, then perhaps it’s time for a paradigm shift. It’s just a thought.