Thursday, December 31, 2020

Happy New Year February 20, 2022

Early morning New Year’s Eve.  This is the best time to think about the year past and the new coming.  Quiet before the world awakes.  Gives you the time needed to actually consider the old and the new year.  A year is a long time.  The fact that we got it is such a wonderful gift.  We do not make time, buy it, create, conjure, or develop it.  It just is (at the moment).  The fact that today means we have almost had another full year of it is miraculous in the extreme, an abundance of profound kindness.  That is ample reason for us to consider how best to live in the new year if I AM allows us another one.  I don’t know who taught me this but seems worth sharing at such a time as this; all people desire to be but most never determine to be.  There is a mighty gulf between desire and determination.  Most of us desire to be a better person, kinder, more compassionate, more understanding.  We desire to be a better spouse, parent, child, friend, citizen, artist, Christian but determining to be is altogether a different thing.  The reason, desire is a mental thing, and determination a physical and not just physical but hard work physical.  Being better at anything just means working at it really hard.  I read somewhere that to be a master at anything requires 10,000 hours of practice.  If you aren’t going to do the math I will.  That is a little over 416 days.  So if you are determining now to be really good at anything next year give yourself until February 20, 2022—and know it will be worth the work especially if you are determined to be a better you.  



    

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