Today marks the end of another year… 2018. As I sit and write this, the view from my window is obscured by a grey, dull winter’s day.
Tomorrow will not only be a new dawn and a new day but will also mark the beginning of 2019. A New Year.
Here we are having reached another milestone in our lives. Regardless if we recognize it or not, this is the time of the year when traditionally we review the past. A time of reflecting on what worked well for us, what didn’t work so well and what decisions we will make about the future. But like the view through my window, I can only see so far…
Whether we throw ourselves fully into the celebrations or whether we spend it quietly, all of us in one way or another have to come to terms with the fact that time passes and the passing of one year into the next is a landmark for us all.
You and I can choose to avoid making changes.
We can avoid looking back over the past year and hide from taking an honest look at ourselves and our life. We can venture on in the New Year and the future doing pretty much the same as we have done before.
I suspect many people will do just that this year. Or maybe start out with an intention to make changes but it all fizzles out by the end of January. But I believe if we choose this path of avoidance, we are listening to a prevalent fear which says that your life isn’t worth much so why bother. A fear that stops you from really looking at your life, because you’ll see your failings, and if you really look at your failings then you’ll feel so uncomfortable that you won’t be able to deal with it. Maybe a fear that if you really look at yourself you won’t like yourself, and so why should anyone else.
Wake Up… Arise…
I urge you to awaken yourself from complacency, and face this fear. Take hold of courage and take a risk today and have a hard look at your life, and stop having a narrow view of yourself and others. Today is a fresh start, a new beginning, and reach out for the goals that lie ahead and achieve your dream. Allow yourself choice, and make the decision that this year IS the year you’ll succeed, whatever your goal, and encourage and support others to do the same. Make up your mind that TOMORROW will be DIFFERENT from yesterday!
Allowing this fear to rule your life, means that aspirations and dreams are for others not you, for your hopes and dreams for the future are futile and worthless. You’ve made your bed, now lie on it, and if you can find something to deaden the pain all well and good because life in the future is pretty bleak.
I am there with you…
I too am reviewing my life. The way I behave, my attitude, my thoughts, my dreams and aspirations. Some of it isn’t easy to face, and quite painful. But if I am to rebuild my temple then I need to know what bits I need to tear down and throw away. I need to know what seeds to sow, and I need to get the foundation right, so that everything I build on top lasts. Last but by no means least I need to have a vision of what it will look like when its finished.
I have made up my mind that this is a year of real growth. So I am taking a serious look at where I am and what I’m doing. I am in control and I am no longer letting life intimidate me. Finally, having finished with dreaming, I am making plans to bring those dreams I have into reality. I am declaring that 1.1.2019 is the start of something new and amazing in my life.
As I look through my window at the sky above, although I can’t see what’s above the dull grey clouds, I know there is a blue clear sky there.
This New Year is a new day.
However, it is also an opportunity to remake and improve you. So if you are fed up with getting the same results. Perhaps you want to stop a bad habit or a negative behaviour. If you want help in how you will attain your goals, and avoid falling into the same traps that caught you in the past. Then why not give me a call and arrange a free 20 minute telephone consultation. It could be the start of not just a New Year but a NEW YOU. You’ll never know unless you try!
Finally, at this new birth of a new year, I wish you all “good courage” – in all that you do.
Until the next time,
Success and Happiness,
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