Maybe in 2017 you can try to live by some quotes during the new year. It may be a challenge for you but I grantee you, it will be worth it. Here are some for you to go by!

1. "One thing with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us." -Michael Cibenko

2. "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." Lao Tzu

3. "And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been."-Rainer Maria Rilke

4. "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. "The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals." -Melody Beattie

6. "I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something." -Neil Gaiman

7. "New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change." -Sarah Ban Breathnach

8. "Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties." -Helen Keller

9. "If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am" - Cyril Cusack

10. "To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach." -Bobby Bowden

11. "Celebrate what you want to see more of." - Tom Peters

12. "Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer." -Walter Scott

13. "All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives." -Steven Spielberg

14. “For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.” - T.S Eliot

15. "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” -Oprah Winfrey

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.