I love ringing in a new year.There's something about fresh starts - new notebooks for the first day of school, a clean page on the calendar - that I find incredibly refreshing.
Sure, maybe another year is gone without us accomplishing all of the things - or anything - we thought we would when it started. We still carry those extra few pounds. Didn't manage to accrue that savings.
But that's the beauty of life. Things come up that we could never expect. Plans change. We figure out how to deal with it.
Besides, we must have accomplished something?
I learned my best lesson about short-term goals when I was the editor of the college newspaper. About halfway into my term I hadn't made a dent in my to do list. I got frustrated. My predecessor gave me a piece of advice.
Rip it up and start all over again.
I'm not one for just giving up, but I've definitely learned that circumstances change beyond our control. Problems come up. New people come into our lives, and others leave. At the end of the day a page on a calendar is just a page on a calendar. It does not define our successes or failures.
Maybe New Year's is just as much about leaving a lackluster year behind as it is starting a new one.
New Year's is usually a time for setting goals we hope to keep for the next twelve months. This year I'm taking a different approach. I'm not making any. I'm just going to pour some champagne, take it one day at a time and see where the new year takes me.
Hopefully somewhere yummy : )
Happy New Year!
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