I don't think you can expect Change from a year. Yet, so many have 'hopes' that this new year will deliver better.
A year is just time passing. It is the blank space we reside in. It doesn't have the power to change how you live; you do.
To passively hope for a better year, is to place the power of your world in the hands of time. An innocent bystander who is waiting for you to use your free will.
Time is time.
It equals the same for everyone.
I listened to a podcast on Ted - "How to gain control of your free time" by Laura Vanderkam
She spoke about the 168 hours we have in a week, and how we use them?
Change will happen when you use them differently.
How we spend time, decides how our year will look upon its completion.
When you say, 'it was a bad year' you are blaming the passing of time.
Changing the way you see yourself and the relationship with time, will create a different view of a year.
As I sat here this morning with a new calendar day, everything seems the same as yesterday. I have zero expectations of the year giving me anything.
I expect that I will engage in my life with heart, mind and soul.
I will accept what comes and that I will know how to manage it.
I will dare to try new adventures.
I will make plans and follow through.
I will be the one who determines how my year flows.
My year, the passing of time awaits for me to dance upon it.
It is the gift of life, the present.
How I engage with it, is up to me.
It simply cannot give me a better year.
It is just minutes, that grow into days, and weeks, months and a Year.
How I spend the minutes, will add to the contents of this year.
To expect pure happiness isn't realistic.
We will have pain and sorrow.
We will have struggle and hardships.
A good Life isn't just living with positive feelings.
The wealthiest of lives, is to live the full spectrum of our emotions. To feel deeply and express freely all that we are.
I want to be more me, deeper, fuller and more complex.
Our character continues to have opportunities for becoming.
Worry less about the passage of time and more about the opportunities that define you.
Maybe we should be saying "Happy New You!"
What wonderful new things will be added to you this year?
I am excited to see how life unfolds this year and what it will change in me.
Happy New You!
