2010 is knocking
"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound" - Zen Saying
Happy New Year and welcome to 2010!
Well here I am this Monday morning sitting with the sounds of the weeks gone by, blending them in with the weeks to come. All of it making some kind of music in my ears. December busyness handled and preparation for Christmas accomplished - check. Joy and love with family and friends over the holidays - check. Christmas decorations put away until next year - check. New Year's goals and planning for the year ahead done - check. Amazing at it all is, we move forward and life happens, sometimes just as we planned and other times - well we do the best we can given the tools we have around us.
With a glorious new year stretching out before us, over the course of the last three days I lounged in the elements of envisioning the possibilities, of what this year can be and become. My new plan in hand comes complete with a quote to empower and motivate me for the year compliments of Benjamin Disraeli:
"The greatest good you can do for others is not just to share our riches, but to reveal to them their own."
I also have my theme for the year - Creating High Energy - Healthy Body and Victorious Mind.
And then there is my ongoing definite chief aim: To connect with entrepreneurs and individuals to create cool, gratifying, and mutually profitable experiences.
Add to that my 2010 notebook with my goals, objections and projections...I believe I am ready to roll. With all this under my umbrella I feel assured that 2010 will bring new riches of one form or another to my life and to the lives of those all around me. It is exciting!
As started last week - here is a continuation of Jim Rohn's, The Seasons of Life, The Winter Season chapter. It seems really appropriate this morning as the next section is about being prepared!
The arrival of winter finds us in one of two categories: Either we are prepared or we are unprepared.
To those who are prepared, who have planted abundantly in the spring, guarded their crops carefully during the summer, and harvested massively during the fall, winter can be yet another season of opportunity. It can a time for reading, a time for planning, a time for gathering our strength for the coming spring, and a time for taking comfortable shelter.
It can be a time of great enjoyment, a time to be shared with those we love, with those with whom we have labored. It is a time of thanksgiving, and a time for sharing of life's bounteous gifts. Winter is a time for being grateful, both for what we have, as well as for what we can yet achieve. Winter is a time for rest, but not excessive rest. It is a time to enjoy the fruits of our labors, but not a time for gluttony. It is a time for warm conversations, but not a time for gossip. It is a time of gratitude, but not a time for complacency. It is a time to be proud, but not a time to be egotistical.
What we do with our time, with ourselves, with our friends, and with our attitudes during the season of winter determines what we will do with the coming spring. We are meant to constantly improve our conditions, ourselves, and our results. We either improve, or we regress, for never do we remain the same. If we do not improve, it is because we do not use our intelligence, our reasoning, and our full potential - - and finally, what we do not use, we lose. Through lack of use we may lose our intelligence, reasoning, potential, and strength. And when lack of use, or misuse, costs us these worthy human attributes, we predictably regress.
Next week we look at what Jim says happens if we are unprepared...Just in time for us, just in case we find ourselves by next week starting to let our new years goals and resolutions starting to slip. So hang on tight, be ready for the ride the year ahead has in store for us. Remember along the way to savor as many moments as possible.
Until next week, onward we go - The first Victory Letter of the year completed- check! The time is now to listen to sounds that are here for us in the year 2010! Let's rock!
To Your Successes and Victories!
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