I love New Year’s.
It’s not the color, because with all the bare trees it is stark as a moonscape. Football is all but over, too cold for festivals, and gardening is limited, but for me the first day of January is like the first day kindergarten.
It’s like I’m headed off on an adventure with a new lunchbox, a fresh writing pad and a pocket full of fat pencils.
The old year is behind us, and the New Year holds all the promise you can imagine.
That’s the key, imagining that life can be better.
Life is already a gift but it’s human nature to want to do better, to reach higher, learn more, look better and improve your life.
I have read a great deal and attended many seminars on the topic of improving your life. I would not pass myself off as an expert but I do know a thing or two about self-improvement.
The key to a better you is to lose old habits that take you nowhere and form new ones that can take you anywhere.
The motivational speaker, Jim Rohn said it as good as anyone, “ A few bad habits repeated daily spells failure. A few good habits repeated daily leads to success.”
The first time I read those words, it was empowering. It was obvious to me; a small change in my behavior could meant the difference between failure and success. I had a level of control over my future.
Not long after reading Rohn’s book, and headed back to college, I was promoted at work before I graduated. I continued on with my master’s degree and I kept moving up the ladder at work.
I’d like to end with another Rohn quote that I think is especially important: “ If you work hard at your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune.” Happy New Year.
