The Reflective Time Between Christmas and New Year
It feels like a twilight between celebration and reflection.
I hope you had a Merry Christmas! 🎄
As Christmas "wraps up," it's time to start thinking about the new year!
Can you believe 2023 is only days away!?
I get excited about the start of the new year because it's a clean slate!
...A fresh start!
...New opportunities!
I don't want to ruin your party, but if you think about it, there has always been a time for everything—years of celebration and others of lamentation.
The pandemic is a great example.
Before, we hugged each other with joy, but now, there is still a hidden discomfort in our being if the person you hug is not infected. How uncomfortable it is to feel like that, and who knows how much longer we will have to endure this because cases continue to reappear in other countries.
And lately, in the middle of Christmas, we were hit by the blizzard of the century. I don't want to mention the effects so as not to feel more melancholy. But if you have a warm resting place decorated with Christmas lights, be thankful for that. There are others that neither have heat nor electricity.
All sad things aside, I'm thankful that I'm sitting here writing and that you're reading. There is something inside us that does not let us faint. Obstacles and troubles push us forward.
It is time to make two lists at Christmas twilight and New Year's Eve, one next to the other. One to thank for everything that the old year gave us and next to write the goal for the next.
Examples:
If your relationships were fixed a lot between your family, fix it with your neighbors too.
If your boss gave you a hundred-dollar bonus for the whole year worked, give him a ten-dollar tie. Let's see what he does with that because you're not going to hang yourself just because he didn't know how to thank you for what you deserve.
And if you've set out to lose weight, be thankful that we're alive and that we can do something about it in everything we set out to do.
There are hundreds of things to be grateful for; I have only mentioned a few to you with a sense of humor. Maybe tomorrow will be a different story if, thank God, we are still alive.
Best of all is to reflect on the things we can be thankful for that we have or that happened in this past year. Convert them into motivation to make this coming year a better one on top of the one that has already ended.
Imagine all we can achieve in five years if we continue building like this. A year with purpose and goals on top of one another. It will be as good as thinking about the one percent daily advance.
But taking each end of the year as a new beginning with new opportunities is what can catapult us towards our destiny with springs in our feet.
With all my heart, I wish all my friends and readers a Happy New Year and much prosperity.
Grab it by the handle, and don't let go. It is yours to prosper.
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