Every man should be born again on the first day of January.
Start with a fresh page.
Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary,
or let down one, according to circumstances;
but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more,
with his face to the front,
and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
~Henry Ward Beecher
I found a lot of good quotes on the philosophy on the new year. New beginning all that.
I had to laugh at Mark Twain's oh so positive out look on it all....
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
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. ~Mark Twain
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. ~Mark Twain
Makes me laugh, but he is honest and mostly right.
Why do we put so much pressure on ourselves on New Year's eve and January 1? What makes all of us think suddenly at the dawning of the next year, in the middle of winter, right after the holidays any of us is going to be in any frame of mind to suddenly "get it right" - Oprah's quote was this
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey
Get what right? That's what I want to know. And why does it only have to be done once a year?
We put the pressure on ourselves on Jan 1, to suddenly change, fail miserably, then table everything until next year. Shouldn't we all be focusing on all of these little things all year long, so that when the new year comes we can look back and say we did our best, and live with no regrets? We focus so much on what is wrong with our lives. New year's seems to be another chance to simply point out all that needs to be fixed, and putting unreasonable expectations on ourselves, dooming us to failure, instead of seeing all that is right.
I hawk a lot of blogs and of course a lot of this week's posts are "My resolutions" - and then proceeds this extremely long, totally unreasonable, totally unattainable list. To what end? So next year we can all say, oh wow, look what I didn't accomplish this year, and I wanted to, oh darn.
I don't normally do resolutions......
Well~ this IS the year I WILL lose the weight ::snicker:::::but that has been in the works long before the new year has come along...
Now what was I saying? OH yeah - the only resolution I am making this year
is to be more grateful.
Simple as that.
Oh certainly there is a list of short-comings I could start listing , take up two pages of my time , feel terrible about myself when I am done, say I am going to change each one, fail miserably, and hate myself for failing yet again, but instead I will chose to focus my energy on the positive.
The Good.
The Happy.
I think that one simple change will change the other areas of my life too.
And as the top quote says~face front, not back. We can't change what is done. We can look forward, and change what is to come. Each DAY is a new one, why wait for next year?
Start with a fresh page.
Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary,
or let down one, according to circumstances;
but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more,
with his face to the front,
and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
~Henry Ward Beecher
I found a lot of good quotes on the philosophy on the new year. New beginning all that.
I had to laugh at Mark Twain's oh so positive out look on it all....
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
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. ~Mark Twain
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. ~Mark Twain
Makes me laugh, but he is honest and mostly right.
Why do we put so much pressure on ourselves on New Year's eve and January 1? What makes all of us think suddenly at the dawning of the next year, in the middle of winter, right after the holidays any of us is going to be in any frame of mind to suddenly "get it right" - Oprah's quote was this
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey
Get what right? That's what I want to know. And why does it only have to be done once a year?
We put the pressure on ourselves on Jan 1, to suddenly change, fail miserably, then table everything until next year. Shouldn't we all be focusing on all of these little things all year long, so that when the new year comes we can look back and say we did our best, and live with no regrets? We focus so much on what is wrong with our lives. New year's seems to be another chance to simply point out all that needs to be fixed, and putting unreasonable expectations on ourselves, dooming us to failure, instead of seeing all that is right.
I hawk a lot of blogs and of course a lot of this week's posts are "My resolutions" - and then proceeds this extremely long, totally unreasonable, totally unattainable list. To what end? So next year we can all say, oh wow, look what I didn't accomplish this year, and I wanted to, oh darn.
I don't normally do resolutions......
Well~ this IS the year I WILL lose the weight ::snicker:::::but that has been in the works long before the new year has come along...
Now what was I saying? OH yeah - the only resolution I am making this year
is to be more grateful.
Simple as that.
Oh certainly there is a list of short-comings I could start listing , take up two pages of my time , feel terrible about myself when I am done, say I am going to change each one, fail miserably, and hate myself for failing yet again, but instead I will chose to focus my energy on the positive.
The Good.
The Happy.
I think that one simple change will change the other areas of my life too.
And as the top quote says~face front, not back. We can't change what is done. We can look forward, and change what is to come. Each DAY is a new one, why wait for next year?
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