The Promise of A New Year

OK....call me corny, or sentimental, or sappy or whatever. Call me eternally optimistic and horribly naive, but I always see the beginning of a New Year as a chance for new beginnings and a fresh start. To me the moments just after midnight on New Years signals the opportunity to push aside the failures and regrets of the previous year, the unfulfilled promises and the abandoned goals.

I like making New Year’s resolutions. I like stating aloud the things about myself and my life that I would like to make my years work. For me it helps to make it more real and far more likely for me to work towards. I think everyone if given the opportunity has things they would like to change, or make better. Yes I know that any day can be that day when one will finally put their mind to it and begin in earnest, but there is some sort of a grander, more romantic gesture to it when done in the spirit of the New Year.

2007 saw a great number of changes for me. Some were sad, some were very positive, but unlike some previous years at least it was a year of change. There was movement in my life...mostly in a forward direction. I feel at year’s end that I am not in the same position I was on January 1st of 2007, and for that I am glad. I saw in myself the ability to make life altering changes during this year. I also confronted beliefs about the future and my own destiny. I made new friends, I took some risks. I went out of my comfort zone, and I didn’t melt. I hope that 2008 will see these things continue.

My wish for everyone that may read this blog is that in your own life, you make 2008 a year of wonderful discoveries about yourself, about the possibilities that exist around you, and that it is a year of moments that will make memories long after 2008.

Happy New Year