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When we realise we can move beyond our "stuckness" in all areas of our lives, the world opens up for us, suggests Dr Charmaine Saunders.

Choice is freedom. Choice is power. This is what I constantly tell my counselling clients. Many people feel "stuck" in their lives, relationships, mistakes, the past, problems, beliefs, limitations and so on.

Once they realise that, in fact, we all have endless choice to write our own scripts and live our lives the way we want, the world opens up and everything changes.

This topic is perfect at the start of a new year, while we're all grappling with resolutions, plans and goals.

Yasmin Boland, an Australian astrologer, suggests that we make three lists at the start of a new year:

1. Things we want to let go of from the outgoing year
2. Things we're grateful for that happened in the previous 12 months
3. Intentions for the New Year

These give us a blank canvas, a clean slate upon which to design the life we really want, see our choices, feel our power.

Why do we feel stuck in the first place?

Limitation thinking

We see ourselves and our lives from a narrow perspective, focusing on lack rather than abundance. We concentrate on all the things we can't do instead of the endless possibilities that exist within the most ordinary life.

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If you're like me, the last two months have been a bit of a rollercoaster. The seasonal good cheer and lazy summer days were very welcome, but not enough to take away the deep disappointment of Copenhagen.

Concerned people here and everywhere invested so much in something that we now realise with head-shaking hindsight was always doomed to fail. When Robert Mugabe was given the floor we should have seen the writing on the wall. I recall being stunned at the time.

But with that futile and immensely profligate exercise behind, now is the time to see clearly. We cannot rely on international forums and partisan groups of all sorts to make our decisions for us. "Climate-lite" Copenhagen was the gravy train that derailed such naivety for all time.

The decisions that will affect our world in the next year, the next decade, the next century start at home with each of us.

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by Nova Editor, Margaret Evans