NOTE: I originally wrote this for New Year’s last year. The plan, the resolution, I made was to start my blog in January. My dad’s health took a turn for the worse and he eventually passed in mid January. Needless to say, I did not feel much like launching my blog at that time. I continued to write daily, but took some time before I went live.
This series is still relevant, almost timeless. Specifics may change, but the concepts and principles remain. Therefore I have edited a few parts to be current and specific to the coming year. Especially noting that 2020 is a Leap Year. We all know how important that is!
Enjoy.
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
Oh man, what are they? What is it?
It’s almost time, what am I going to do next year?
What will I change?
What will I gain?
Oh no, it’s 2 minutes to midnight…
Hurry, hurry, hurry…
Think, think, think…
Is it like the birthday wish?…
It doesn’t come true if you don’t blow out all the candles?
Nothing good happens if you don’t make a wish?
You only get the wish if you make it before you blow out the candles…
Too late…
“Happy New Year!”
Well, there it is.
Another year in the books.
Another thoughtless, last minute decision.
Of what I will start doing and what will stop doing.
What I will do less of and what I will do more of.
The crucial decisions that reveal the path for the year ahead.
The decisions that determine the goals, accomplishments, adventures.
Of the 365 to come, well, 366 this year!
Is that why nothing changes?
Because, once again, I have waited until two minutes to midnight.
Waited until the final minutes of the year fade into the past.
To even consider what the closing year meant.
What the New Year will mean.
What story my history book will tell a year from now.
When I stand here once again.
Raising my glass to another turn of the page.
The closing of one chapter and the opening another.
Hmmm…
Maybe that is something I will think more about in this New Year.
And, before the clock reads 11:58, 2 minutes to midnight.
As the time comes to switch the calendar from one year to another.
So comes the time to switch our thoughts from those that limit to those that elevate.
To review the things we regret.
To those that we will improve.
Those that will bring about success in whatever we so seek.
Because it’s a time of review and reflection.
Analyzation and evaluation.
What did we do well?
What did we accomplish?
Did we meet our goals?
Did we progress?
Or, did we fall short?
Did we regress?
We now turn our thoughts to what lies ahead.
What do we want to gain.
What do we want to accomplish.
What do we want to do better.
And leaving behind that which no longer serves us.
Pruning the areas we no longer want or need.
Committing, resolving to do more of this and less of that.
To do better and be better in the next 365, ahem, 366, NEVER forget Leap Year!.
Because it’s New Years Eve.
And tomorrow we will start being better.
As January 1 provides the opportunity to even the score.
Level the playing field and start anew.
Because no matter how far one has progressed.
Or no matter how far one has regressed.
We all start the year on January 1.
How will you start the year to come?
What will resolute to do or not to do?
How will you cherish the promise of a new beginning?
How will I, you ask?
What are my resolutions for the New Year?
Oh, well it seems I have run out of time in the present.
I must get ready for the evening and the party to come.
So you will just have to stay tuned…
Resolute to follow me and my ramblings in the year to come on January 1.
Talk Soon,
Kevin W @LEAP272
Owner-Operator
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