What If Every Day Were New Years Day?
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It’s been a long while since I have ever set any resolutions for a new year. The past few years, I have instead put my focus on a “theme word” for the year. Words like JOY or TRUST or BELIEVE. It was interesting to see how each of the words played out each of those years. In the last couple of weeks, as the year came to a close, I began to ponder what word I should choose for this new year. But none came.
We can start a year with certain plans, hopes, and dreams. But a year is a long time. In a year we could easily forget or lose motivation for what we started the year desiring in our hearts. Or perhaps we will end up needing something new. If I have learned any one thing it is that life changes.
Perhaps that is why I don’t choose to look at this year as one vast expanse of time ahead of me. Instead, I want nothing more than to be present for the day ahead. To have intention for my day ahead – determined by where I am now, what my heart desires now, what my body needs now, what those I love need now.
I think I have spent so many years trying to achieve, achieve, achieve. Yet I have seen that when we let go a little bit, take things as they come, remain present, and proceed bit by bit, it is then we fulfill our hopes and can watch things happen.
I don’t suggest having no goals or plans for this coming year. I have some myself. I still find it helpful to consider what you want to achieve and to set up the SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, time-oriented) approach to them. What I encourage you to consider today, though, is to not get so caught up in the entire year and get so lost in the big vision that you forget about TODAY.
Have your goals and know the intention behind each. Is it your health? Your confidence? Your happiness in work? Your joy in relationships? Your passion for a certain activity or dream? Know the intention and then reflect each day on how you can live out that intention that day.
What if every day were like New Years Day? After all, January 1st 2014 is just another day. Just like the 364 to follow it. Treat them all with the same hope and sense of renewal. Give them all the same attention to intention. Then watch yourself soar.
