It’s the beginning of a new year. Lately, all over social media, different memes and posts have been shared hundreds of times pointing out that the beginning of a new year is a lot like having a new book to write. 365 blank pages to try and make into a new special year filled with goodness and not repeating the mistakes of our pasts.
What I want to point out, is that it is wonderful to have lofty goals to be a better person and to hope to have a better year than the previous one, but we can’t really do that without taking a good hard look at the past.
Take a moment and reflect on your bygone year. look at the choices that you made, the actions that you took part in, the voice and opinion you were willing to stand behind.
No one can move on and make a better future without examining the mistakes and successes of the past.
Let’s all try to set a goal to be better people in 2019 than we were in 2018. Let’s walk a little softer, be a little kinder, learn a little more, try a little harder, and if we do then 2019 will be a little better.
As for me personally, my daughter asked me what my 2019 New Year’s resolution was going to be and I asked her what she thought it should be.
Her reply was that she thought that I needed to smile more. That really struck me because overall I don’t consider myself to be unhappy at all, but she thought that I needed to smile more in 2019. So that has become my personal New Year’s resolution.
I will look at 2018 and think about all the times that I should have reacted with a smile, and smile my way into a better year in 2019.
It’s a new year, a new book filled with blank pages. My book will be dotted with little smiley faces.
How will your 2019 book begin?
