Spring >>> FORWARD!

Is it just ME, or do you, too, find it all but unbelievable that the ‘new year’ is almost 25% behind us?

Hard to believe, but true!

So, how’s that been working for you?  Still honoring those resolutions,  crossing things off your list and, more importantly,  setting  new goals and adding them to the bottom?

I know, I know; the best laid plans of every new year are ‘oft found dwindling by this time of the year.

NOW HEAR THIS!   It’s OK!

Yes, you read that correctly; it’s OK.

Growth cannot and should not be tied to the afterglow of ushering-in a new year.  Growth comes not because of a date on the calendar but because we chose to  grow  –  then we make it happen.

On a global basis, I would say 2014 got off to a fairly dreadful start.  As wars are winding down, another may be on the brink of starting.  Hundreds of people have fallen from the sky to God only knows where.  Mother Nature has made her presence known and I, for one, am left wondering:  what is it that we are supposed to take-away from all of this?  What are the lessons we need to learn?

As a resident of the northeast Atlantic coast of the United States, a record-breaking – and for no good reasons – winter has just ended.  Historically cold temperatures and a ridiculous snow fall level makes the emerging Spring more welcome than usual.

Of course, many of you are on the opposite side of the seasons facing Autumn, perhaps the most beautiful season of all.  

For me, I am reminded: there is much we can control; there is much we cannot.

Ergo, it makes sense to control that which we can and be prepared to cope with what we cannot.  That combination will produce the best balanced outcomes.

There is no wrong time of the year to decide to take forward action, to stop procrastinating and finding new reasons ‘not to’.  There is no best time for the spirit within to move you toward action; it is always the wrong time to ignore that call, for that time may never come again.

Regardless of the date on the calendar, the season you are heading toward, or what has stalled you until this time, NOW is a great time, the BEST time, the RIGHT time, to decide, to move forward, to contribute to a world that so desperately needs all of us to do something to get this world back on a better track.

Everything matters, everything helps, everything makes a difference.  All that is required is listening to that voice from within; it may seem to have grown silent but is always willing to be awakened  -  again.

So, IS it just me, or do you, too see that every day can be day one of a new year followed by 364 more that move you, me and the world toward redemption.  It’s all worth it!

Happy New Year!