New Year's Resolutions

New Year’s Resolutions

Soooooooooo, this is that time of year when people start thinking of all of the stuff that didn’t go right last year and that they want to change for the year to come. They reflect on all of the major situations and they talk about how they want to grow or where they want to go and they make a short or long list depending on the person of how they’re going to get there. I am switching things up this year. I am going to focus on one thing and let it be the driving force behind all of my decisions to the events in my life for the year to come. My resolution is to make each minute better than the last one that I had.

For me it’s just that simple. When you really think about it all you have is the minute that you’re in. The next one may never come. People die in an instant and all of the plans that they had for the year to come will mean nothing. The moment after death is irrelevant. The moment right before though, that is a moment that you can do something with. You can share a little more love, laugh if you feel like, smile for no reason, or cry if you want to. You can pray, praise, or perfect! You can encourage, inspire, and enable. You can do so much with the moment that’s present. Unfortunately, so many people forsake the moment that they’re in for a moment that may never come. They lose all of the possibility of the now, hoping in a future that may be expiring sooner than they think. I don’t want to be that person. Don’t get me wrong. I’m a planner by nature. I will always have some sort of multi-step process in play to get things done. There’s always a method for getting from the point that I’m at the next one on the list. I just don’t want to get so caught up in the plans that the current moment is never lived. That would be a total waste of all of the moments that I am given if I spend all of the current in anticipation of the next. I want to live now, love now, laugh now, enjoy now, work now, grow now, be fully me at my best right now. And if I get another moment, cool. There’s an opportunity to be better.

So that’s the theme for 2011. Make each moment better than the last. I don’t know how many I’ve got. I can’t count the number that I’ve wasted. I vow to make each one count. This is my resolution from here on out!

It's Really Almost Over

Wow, another year has come and gone and we get to now embark upon a new journey into a time that some of us could have never imagined. Some friends and I were talking about technology and how much it has changed over the last decade. We talked about how far cell phones had come and how even the media we take in is so much different than what it used to be! It’s amazing to think about all of the changes that have taken place over the last ten years and who knows what’s coming in the next ten!
This conversation also caused me to take a deeper look at 2009! There were a lot of victories for me personally as well as in our community as a whole. There was also some heart ache, disappointment and many things that we never saw coming. However, despite the challenges or the victories the truth still remains that we made it! We are journeying into a year that so many people will never get to see and we have the unique opportunity to create the life that we always envisioned for ourselves at the dawn of this new day!
I encourage you to take a look at your life right now and to think about where you want to be by the end of 2010. Vow daily to take steps towards these goals so that they go from imagination to reality. No matter what it is, I promise you that with determination and faith all things are possible for those that believe! The question that you have to ask yourself is, “Do I believe?” If the answer is yes, you will be able to overcome challenges and you will make progress that you never believed possible. Take the risk and do your best to live the life that you know that you deserve! I know that I will!
If 2009 was great for you, make 2010 even better! If 2009 presented unparalleled challenges, take the lessons that you’ve learned and use them as building blocks to make 2010 better! It’s up to you folks!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!