Change
What you're supposed to do
when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the
way you think about it. Don't complain.”
Today, the first day of
the new year, is here. Change is here.
Change is inevitable.
I take down the
old calendar, and put up the new one.
Its pages are fresh, clean, but soon to be filled up with appointments,
events, the significant occurrences and adventures of the new year.
A fresh year, a
new start, and off we go. Already, I am
deciding what to do, how to interact with the world, how to be a productive and
healthy person.
How do I meet
the challenges of the new year? Old
habits, old ways of thinking, or maybe a new approach, a new paradigm for the
new year.
Every day,
actually, is like New Year’s Day. We
have that ability to make a fresh start, and embrace new ways of thinking,
every day.
I embrace the
old ways, the routines. They are
comforting, predictable, familiar. Yet,
following those old ways, being in my rut, assures me of not growing, and not
realizing my potential in this new year, this new day.
A new year is a
new beginning, if I want it to be truly a fresh start.
“Be the change
you want to see in the world,” Mahatma Gandhi said.
I do want the
world to change. But first, I need to
change. It is up to me to begin.
Today.
Neal Lemery 1/1/2016
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