Posted on 29 Dec, 2010 -
What will the New Year bring?
My New Year wishes to you...
Dear Reader,
It has been a long and tiring year and I am tempted to join John Dos Passos in saying:
”Why won’t they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can’t they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum.”
I also found some solace in the words of the British diarist James Agate whose New Year’s Resolution was:
“To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”
But this will not do. It is nearly New Year’s Eve. Onwards we must go. Onwards and upwards and into the new year with high hopes and open hearts.
“The object of a New Year” said G. K. Chesterton, “is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.”
Ah yes… Now we’re getting somewhere! So how about this from American journalist, Ellen Goodman:
“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.”
Now that’s more like it. A time for potential. A time for another chance.
After all, how many of us do not have regrets about ‘what we could have been’ but weren’t?
So why not use New Year as a time to think about what we still COULD do or be if we put our minds to it? It is a time to release all the potential that we have - including our work potential, our financial potential and our health potential as well.
Let us start, perhaps, by thinking of some things that we would like to do, if we could.
And then, when the doubts begin to raise their apologetic heads, ask ourselves:
Why can’t I do this, if I’d like to?
Is there really anything stopping me? And if there is what is it?
What is stopping you from fulfilling your potential?
Often it is our own habits of behavior or thought that prevent us from fulfilling our potential - although we can be pretty good at finding ways of blaming it on circumstance.
Take a closer look at your excuses and you will probably find them poor.
But no personality trait or habit is set in stone. It is possible to be brave and go and get what we want.
Feel the thrill of a new you setting in.
See fulfilling your potential as a duty rather than a selfish pursuit. It is time to step up and be and do what you can for those around you and for the world.
Don’t expect to always get things right. Be prepared to be wrong and suddenly anything is possible.
“Fail, fail again. Fail better.” said Samuel Becket
Fear of looking silly… Fear of failure… Fear of embarrassment… These are all enemies of goodness, creativity and a passionate, full and important life.
However full your life already is, there is always room for more
“Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Eckhart Tolle:
The New Year lies before you
Like a spotless tract of snow
Be careful how you tread on it
For every mark will show.Author Unknown
Dance
As though no one is watching you.
Love
as though you have never been hurt before.
Sing
as though no one can hear you.
Live
as though heaven is here on earth.
May you have enough happiness to keep you happy.
Enough trials to keep you strong.
Enough sorrow to keep you human.
Enough hope to keep you thoughtful.
Enough failure to keep you humble.
Enough success to keep you eager.
Enough friends to give you comfort.
Enough faith and courage in yourself to banish depression.
Enough wealth to meet your daily needs.
Enough determination to make each day a better day than yest
Wishing you A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!
All my very best wishes
