Today is the start of a brand new year. Isn’t it funny that we look to this one day to start afresh or gain insight? We could do it any day, but for some reason the start of a new year makes us look back and pledge to do better in the future.
We start a new diet, promise to keep in touch, and make all kinds of deals with ourselves to be new people – not the ones from the year before. Unfortunately, the new diet sometimes falls away before the month is over and we go back to our other ways fairly soon.
I am guilty of all the above – diets, promises, etc. One year I read that we should write everything down and then reread it one month later to see what we had accomplished. After I finally found the list, I found that I had not fulfilled my promises to myself at all. But that is just human nature.
Even though I realize that today is not much different from yesterday, I am still making resolutions to myself. They are pretty general with lots of leeway so maybe I will accomplish some of them this year.
And being an optimist, I always hope. So, I wish you a very Happy New Year and wish you “hope,” too.
We start a new diet, promise to keep in touch, and make all kinds of deals with ourselves to be new people – not the ones from the year before. Unfortunately, the new diet sometimes falls away before the month is over and we go back to our other ways fairly soon.
I am guilty of all the above – diets, promises, etc. One year I read that we should write everything down and then reread it one month later to see what we had accomplished. After I finally found the list, I found that I had not fulfilled my promises to myself at all. But that is just human nature.
Even though I realize that today is not much different from yesterday, I am still making resolutions to myself. They are pretty general with lots of leeway so maybe I will accomplish some of them this year.
And being an optimist, I always hope. So, I wish you a very Happy New Year and wish you “hope,” too.
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