Today is the beginning of this new year, this new decade.
Isn't it strange how we seem to have nurtured this interesting tradition referred to as new year's resolutions -- making and breaking them. Why? Do we believe that the first day of a new year is a new start? Why don't we believe that each new day can be a new beginning? Why not think that about each moment?
Maybe that is why new year's resolutions get broken -- because we make them, intending to keep them, but we don't renew our intentions to keep them, moving forward through time, moment to moment, day to day. There is something to living in the moment, in the "right now", in living with intention.
I'm not sure I would even have the discipline to do so. Even if I did, how could that be managed with many resolutions. Imagine keeping all those goals moving from moment to moment. Is that even possible? Maybe we just need to choose one and then meet it with sincere and committed intention as we move through our minutes, days and months. But, then again, maybe it is just good enough to set goals, to think about changes we want to make. Maybe we move mountains gradually, slowly, by making conscious choices to become aware that change needs to happen. Change begins with awareness. In fact, it cannot happen without it.
So we become aware, make the choice to change, verbalize our intention to the universe and then actualize it. If we fully commit to this process then how can we keep it going? How can we measure results in our forward progression? How can we "stay awake" so that many months from now we do not look back and lament the loss of focus on these opportunities to change, to grow, to transform.
Are our resolutions unrealistic? Are they too huge? Maybe we need to take a big change, break it down and then create "baby step" resolutions -- ones that we know we can commit to, that we can meet with intention from moment to moment. Maybe if we slip up, we can be gentle with ourselves and re-affirm the resolution rather than sinking the ship or pronouncing immediate failure.
A new year. Many new opportunities. A day just like yesterday, only different. Changes made, changes hoped for, changes to come. Evolving transformation. Awareness and renewal. Intention and commitment.
New. Year. Decade. Awareness. Change. Process. Intention. Commitment. Resolutions.
Where are you at? Where are you going? Where and when will you arrive? Will you ever arrive? How will you get there?
In the 17th and 18th centuries, salons were considered intellectual gatherings where literature, politics, culture and philosophy were discussed by the contemporary lumineries ushering in an era of enlightenment. This blog is an effort to revive this lost art and encourage the collective conscious and unconscious to partake in intellectual discourse as well as generating creative musings that will benefit the enlightenment of all who wish to play or simply observe the process.
Quotes on a New Year and on Resolutions
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell
New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. ~Joey Adams
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. ~Henry Moore
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~Anaïs Nin
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell
New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. ~Joey Adams
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. ~Henry Moore
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~Anaïs Nin
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