"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience... not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."
– Leo Tolstoy
Every new year that comes in, we make a list for what we hope to achieve. It could be getting that new job, purchasing a new home or car, making good on our promises to lose weight, stop smoking and live a healthy lifestyle. But most of us probably have only gotten half of that list, and forgotten the rest.
The reason for this is that we think we have the whole year to accomplish what’s on our list, and the next year to do it just in case we fail to do so. However, the object of a New Year is that we should have a new year – which means making sure that the resolutions we make for ourselves will not be set aside, only to become part of the list for the next year.People make resolutions to change aspects of themselves they believe are negative. It is a strange assumption that we can enumerate these but only revert back to how we were before and feel like failures.
So for 2009, here is a resolution – throw the list away. Face the new year with the firm decision to do what you are supposed to do, and that is to live your life with no regrets, with a resolution that you intend to keep for the rest of the year, and live until the next. (AJPress)
( Published on January 2, 2009 in Asian Journal Northern California p. A8 )
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