A Happy New Year to all reading this.
I saw a quote saying 365 days, 365 chances. I thought back if I felt that way and I am able to recall when I did and the many times I didn’t.
365 days, 365 chances, pithy as it may be, bothers me.
New year, new start, new me; is a sentiment that goes hard at this time of year, the days have new in the title so no mystery there. Often times we have been carrying everything from the previous year, straight into this new one and despite our hopes, that weight can quickly colour our new perspective.
The truth is we can be new, and refresh at anytime, any day of the 365 presented to us. 365 days, 365 chances, pithy as it may be, bothers me. I think it is the word “chances”. It has connotations of luck, of happenstance that change will just happen. We all know it probably won’t. We get to where we want through work and effort, sometimes we don’t notice how much until we get there and sometimes we just don’t notice how much at all and don’t even get wherever the fabled “there” is.
What I found to be missing is space needed to build. All our pressures and challenges are still there. We spend the time mentally fire fighting and that idea of a change, of a chance to refresh disappears behind everything else.
If this rings true with you I invite you to actually take a breath. Go find a space free from distraction where your focus is only on you. It can help, when in that space, to look at what weighs heaviest and just think of one thing to reduce that weight even a fraction.
Lets spend some time working on ourselves and see what happens.
I hope that helps a little. Thinking about actual change we can make, however tiny, forms ideas in our minds helping us to unstick and feel ourselves move forward. It can be liberating, I hope it is for you.
As for 365 days, 365 chances, perhaps instead we choose “lets spend some time working on ourselves and see what happens”. I will admit that as a meme it is less catchy, perhaps it is the better for that. The change of focus from instant change to long-term investment in our self, I think, is worth the higher word count.
If you would like some help working on yourself, let me know.
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