What a difference we hope one evening will make. The sun sets on 31st December and when it has risen the next morning a new year has begun. All that was of the year past has gone and the New Year is here. New possibilities, new hopes, new ideas and dreams.
Making New Years’ resolutions takes the New Year seriously as a new start. In making New Years’ resolutions, many people try to make possible their dreams, ideas and hopes. With the morning of 1st January comes not only a new year, but for many of us, a hope of a new ME. The trouble is, more years than not, we quickly realize it might be a new year but it’s the same old me.
There’s really good things about all the hope that is around at the New Year but there’s also stuff that is not so good. New Year is an opportunity to do some thinking, a kind of inventory on our lives.
Some have a bit of New Year’s Resolution-phobia. Their worst year was when they made ten resolutions. They ranged from exercising every day to eating less. By the end of January they’d broken most of them, by the end of February they’d forgotten what they were! In those first few days of January we realize what unrealistic human beings we are, as well as how undisciplined we can be at keeping our resolve.
The trouble, then, is that you ...
