New Year's resolutions
In Come, Pray, Love, there is a moment in which you can appreciate the following quote: "We are content to live unhappy because we are afraid of change and that everything is reduced to ruins". Changing our daily routines can create an existential dilemma. Normally, at the end of each year we make a list of purposes that we know we are not going to fulfill. That if I am going to register in the gym, that if I will stop smoking, drinking or eating junk food, that if I will register in an English course, that I will try to travel; and thus we make an endless list without any real vision of what we can or want to do.
The objectives that we decide to write in our list have to be "attainable", that we can carry out without so much sacrifice, that they make us feel satisfied, that we see them as a motivating personal challenge, that they depend on us and that we do them because we like them. Seen in this way, we can surely not only set ourselves excellent goals, but achieve them as 2019 progresses. I propose you 5 objectives, easy to achieve and that will surely comfort your soul. Let us begin:
Read more
You can target a number of books per month, but also walk through literary genres that you may not like. Also, visiting a bookstore is a good plan. Going to bookstores is a good exercise for books to find you, talk to you. Sometimes you don't look for a book and it appears, they recommend it to you, you see it, it's love at first sight. Try to read, but with passion, not out of obligation, but out of necessity and desire. Feel that the stories catch you and you are like a leaf in the wind when you reach the end of the book. Do not give opportunity to books that do not catch you, like loves, must be love at first sight, catch you, stay awake with what he tells you and makes you see. Reading will give you the certainty not only to know more, but to have the feeling of having lived longer. Remember, it's never enough of that thing we're passionate about.
Meet new people
I love this idea. The gifts of the universe are not material: they are people. So take the time to get to know them. Not only personally, we can also meet people through networks. They don't have to become great friends, or be people who share our tastes and customs. Just know, talk, share ideas. There are people who smell the books we like, the tastes they provoke, the feelings we long for. Surely this kind of relationship will open doors in our minds and hearts. May we not lack this year those people with whom any moment becomes special. Let there be no lack of people who trust you, even when you do not. Remember that it is never too late for what is true and that love is a verb that only exists if it is demonstrated.
Trust Yourself More and Take Risks
Look in the mirror and stop thinking you're someone else's reflection. You are the best version of yourself. We must see what makes us unique and find peace. Read to each other and know that we have erasures, parentheses, but also colors, unique lines. It is not only to know our defects, it is to be aware of our virtues. Not letting ourselves be what we are, just because others want to be. To lose oneself is one of the greatest nostalgia. So in our curriculum of life let us put our merits and our falls, let us show our war wounds, that there has never been a sailor without a storm or a cook without a burn. Set new goals, things you wouldn't dare do out of fear or sadness. Sing, even if you sing out of tune, tell a joke and laugh out loud even if others don't; but also invest and take risks, perhaps in cryptographic coins, in new loves, in changes of house. I would like to think that just as the earth is constantly moving and evolving, so are we.
Do something new
Skin is not fooled by routine, so let's try new things this year. Let's get out of our comfort zone, out of what we always do because they're familiar. In the previous purpose I was telling you that we might consider being more risky. Then it would be a good start to do activities that perhaps have caught our attention, but that we have not done. It doesn't have to become your new hobby, but you can do it once and that's it. Try, do, feel events or new things. There are many things out there that haven't been released. Gifts that life gives us but that we don't open because we are afraid or just feel we don't deserve. Maybe you've never dared to eat spicy, taste a beer, bake a cake, dance salsa, and then do it. What's stopping you? If it goes wrong, if you don't like it, then at least you have the experience you've tried this year and you've done something new.
Write it all down
Our faces change when we are children, our bodies change when we are young, our souls change when we are adults. Writing your day to day can be a good therapeutic exercise, to relieve the mind, to breathe another air, to see each other with other eyes. When we write, we feel again, we draw feelings; it's like cleaning the house: if we do it daily, no cobwebs accumulate. Make writing your nascent way of escape, your new hobby. That's going to be good, because by writing you're making a window into your heart. Buy yourself or make a notebook, leave it next to your bed and there, at the end of the day, write down the most important things that have happened to you. And if nothing has happened to you, also write about that routine that sometimes wants to beat us. How about sending a letter? Those written with a pencil and on paper, and where you leave your scent. Never forget that sometimes we write for a living, but we also do it so as not to die in the thoughts of others.
In short, that in every list of purposes that we do not figure fear, nor sadness nor loneliness. Let any goal or objective not be a chain but the keys to freedom. Remember to have your feet on the ground next year, but your eyes in the sky; that life is too short to waste in any war and that hopefully life will bring us everything beautiful that we let escape. Now uncover that bottle of wine that you have pending and health.
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Why should be make resolutions on the occasion of new year?We can never succeed unless we change ourselves. We should not find the particular day or time to change ourselves and do good things. We can do it right from this moment. We must not wait for the special time. In fact, every time in our life is special and equally important.
We should not make excuses for our failures. Rather we should be resolute and determined for the change.
I love your way of thinking, @akdx, and I agree with you. I think that's what life is all about: not waiting for joy to smile. Goals and objectives can be set at any time. But I think it's inevitable that at the end of the year people will review what they've done and what they want to do. It would be good if we could say that we have done a lot and we still have a lot to do. Thank you for your comment and happy day.
ENLIGHTENMENT POST.
A year passed, we have good time and bad time through day by day, week by week, months by months and we come to the edge of the year.
End of year is the right time to calculate, weighing how far and how successful during a year's journey. Do we become more prosperous, happy or there is still a lot that we have to improve and achieve again.
We can still look at the journey of the past year, have all the projects we planned for finished? We also can still see again whether our families can we embrace with love and responsibility?
Or, are there still things that have not been achieved?
A number of questions that we can still ask ourselves. We cannot lie to ourselves.
After all, we answer honestly and steadily, then we look at the 2019 new year steadily. Convince yourself that we will change better, be ourselves and strive to realize dreams and hopes. We can still improve the 2018 target that has not been achieved and re-set the target with all our heart to achieve it.
Happy new year, hopefully the hopes and dreams in the future will be achieved.
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Thanks to you for your words and for always giving your comment, @rokhani. I think it's also worth repeating last year's resolutions if we think they're necessary and we haven't reached it yet. I also believe it is necessary to be more honest, good and grateful to the world and life. If we change, the world will change. And change goes from the inside out. I liked your words. Thank you very much and happy new year for you from Venezuela.
Great post, Nancy! Really not much more to say about it except...
How cool would it be if everyone followed your plan? The world would be significantly nicer for sure.
Thank you!
My good friend, @bigtom13, it's a pleasure to see you here. You know I admire your posts, so it's an honor to read your comment. I don't know if the world would be better, but at least we would be happier with ourselves. Let me give you a hug in the distance and may next year bring us more things to celebrate and smile about. ;)
Hello, @nancybriti. It seems to me that the purposes you suggest are very appropriate, although, in truth, they should be part of our life each year, both for those who do not practice them and for those who always assume them. As they are "attainable" purposes, as you say, if you allow me, I would add: to try to understand each other better with the people close to you, those around you. Thank you for reaffirming or opening these possibilities. Happy New Year to you and to the @adsactly community!
Yeah, that would be a good purpose, @josemalavem. I think that's what we all lack: understanding, tolerance, acceptance, respect. The world would be more livable and good. Always grateful for your pertinent and sharp comments. A big hug for you and thank you.
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LOL. Me too! I think that's everyone's wish. Although I did not put it as a purpose, I hope that next year we will be able to travel more. That would be ideal. Thank you for commenting and greeting, @farizal.
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