Always at the start of a new year, I am filled with hope. It is as if I were standing in front of a wide, sunny path flanked with spruce. Looming ahead is great beauty, and yet, after a while, it is impossible to see what lies around the bend. Instead of provoking anxiety, there is elation. ‘This is the year!!’ is what my psyche seems to say. ‘For what?’ asks my rationale. ‘Everything…’
The process of making a list of goals at the start of a year is not mere superstition; instead it is a great way to realign the mind.For the past few weeks before the end of the year, most of us have been running around: buying gifts, hoping they
won’t be returned, writing and sending cards, opening and displaying cards, eating fatty foods, seeing friends and family… Although lovely it can be very discombobulating. And then, like a beacon of light, the end of it all and the birth of a New
Year.
With ever goal that you commit to paper, you also fix into your mind.Like a train veering, the goal says to you, Ah, so this is what you really want to focus on—not the dirty dishes in the sink or the routine errands you have to run.Because, with the beauty of every new year also comes the everyday subsist.It is so easy to loose your true desires to the pressing daily demands. View your goal list as a warrior does their shield and lance, as a defense and banisher and you will be reminded of what it is you really want to focus on.
won’t be returned, writing and sending cards, opening and displaying cards, eating fatty foods, seeing friends and family… Although lovely it can be very discombobulating. And then, like a beacon of light, the end of it all and the birth of a New
Year.
With ever goal that you commit to paper, you also fix into your mind.Like a train veering, the goal says to you, Ah, so this is what you really want to focus on—not the dirty dishes in the sink or the routine errands you have to run.Because, with the beauty of every new year also comes the everyday subsist.It is so easy to loose your true desires to the pressing daily demands. View your goal list as a warrior does their shield and lance, as a defense and banisher and you will be reminded of what it is you really want to focus on.
