First Steps - Happy New Year
"The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul." -- G. K. Chesterton
A new soul, a new life – however you want to look at it, the idea is pretty much the same. Like a writer coming to a blank page, with all its infinite possibilities, so we come to a brand new year.
We have yet to break one promise to anyone this year – even ourselves. We can plan anything and believe wholeheartedly that THIS YEAR, we will follow through, THIS YEAR, we will finally finish that project, that book, that [insert personal ‘it’ here] we’ve meant to do, wanted to do, promised to do for years.
What is that for you?
Please, don’t get me wrong. I am not asking you to make yourself one more promise you don’t intend to keep. I am asking you, though, to consider how you might feel if you decided this year to take steps toward fulfilling your promise.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail? What does that look like?
So here’s the deal, for myself and for whomever else may be ‘listening’. 2010, Begin Again.
This year, I will work on creating the pieces of miracles I can control, and I will leave the rest to the universe. For me, that means writing. I am in the midst of a writing project that I must finish, and I will. By the end of this month.
I can’t control whether or not a publisher will pick it up, but I can control whether or not I finish it. Once it’s done, I will have completed two full manuscripts within 13 months. Not too shabby. In fact, something to celebrate.
I am inspired today, this first day of 2010, by Beginning. As we all likely know, because of Lao-tzu’s ancient wisdom, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
My first step – posting daily on this blog, and committing to finishing my manuscript by the end of January.
I have a few more steps to go – a thousand miles seems like an awfully long way, but we do best by focusing on one step at a time, rather than the full distance.
Care to walk with me?
A new soul, a new life – however you want to look at it, the idea is pretty much the same. Like a writer coming to a blank page, with all its infinite possibilities, so we come to a brand new year.
We have yet to break one promise to anyone this year – even ourselves. We can plan anything and believe wholeheartedly that THIS YEAR, we will follow through, THIS YEAR, we will finally finish that project, that book, that [insert personal ‘it’ here] we’ve meant to do, wanted to do, promised to do for years.
What is that for you?
Please, don’t get me wrong. I am not asking you to make yourself one more promise you don’t intend to keep. I am asking you, though, to consider how you might feel if you decided this year to take steps toward fulfilling your promise.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail? What does that look like?
So here’s the deal, for myself and for whomever else may be ‘listening’. 2010, Begin Again.
This year, I will work on creating the pieces of miracles I can control, and I will leave the rest to the universe. For me, that means writing. I am in the midst of a writing project that I must finish, and I will. By the end of this month.
I can’t control whether or not a publisher will pick it up, but I can control whether or not I finish it. Once it’s done, I will have completed two full manuscripts within 13 months. Not too shabby. In fact, something to celebrate.
I am inspired today, this first day of 2010, by Beginning. As we all likely know, because of Lao-tzu’s ancient wisdom, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
My first step – posting daily on this blog, and committing to finishing my manuscript by the end of January.
I have a few more steps to go – a thousand miles seems like an awfully long way, but we do best by focusing on one step at a time, rather than the full distance.
Care to walk with me?
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