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A simple reason people can get discouraged from moving forward with their hopes and changes for a new year is that the previous year still must be wrapped up. YES the calendar says 2015, but everything about our daily world still says December 2014!
Here are just a few things that can keep your mind focused on the previous year and off your new plans:
• Hectic holiday travel
• Putting away the holidays, ie, taking down lights, packing and storing decorations
• Writing thank you notes…or in my case New Year’s Cards…
• Paying bills that say December
• Organizing 2014 tax information
Is it any wonder you stumble on your new aspirations? How about giving yourself a little break? Maybe you are not so behind after all. Take a few minutes and reflect on everything you’ve accomplished in the first 6-weeks of 2015.
The little bit of sunshine and warmer temps we’ve enjoyed have teased the daffodils! But the promise of spring does bring a New-Year-kind-of-energy so I think the middle of February is the perfect time to officially start the New Year! What about you?
Now let yourself feel encouraged and give yourself permission to officially start YOUR new year now.
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Well said Gigi – my sister gave the same advice about working out and losing weight – dieting — ext; why put the extra pressure on yourself and start Jan 1 — start FEB 1 she said — and heck, and now I have till mid – FEB. To me Jan is the rollover month or spare month. Very few people can wrap up a year by 12/31. And if so, how – do they do it?! I bet it’s one crazy house hold.
Well, I better get on my Valentines Day card… Or hum, should I get them on sale on Sunday? 🙂
I say stop pressering ourselves and allowing others to pressure us. Every day is a Gift and a Holiday….
The first six weeks of the year always are lousy for me. I get very depressed and eat too much junk. It’s because after the high hopes for the holidays (usually dashed), it’s winter grey and reflection on my upcoming birthday. I think about the fact that another year has passed and I still am an epic fail in my life, dreams unfulfilled, career nil, and still alone. I feel like a total loser. I know it’s not true but those are the thoughts that plague my brain. Then I gradually begin to see hints of spring and with that hope for renewal. Then my birthday on Feb. 17 and I resolve to move forward with renewed hope in the things that matter. This year is the same and yet different — one year into a new, but highly stressful job (who could have imagined landing in the middle of the worst public health crisis in modern times?); my first R&R spent in Portugal with such beauty; and my birthday falls on Fat Tuesday (Shrove Tuesday, Carnaval, or Mardi Gras, whatever you choose to call it) with Lent beginning the next day. I will be enjoying the biggest Carnaval in Portugal (they celebrate me!!!) and then lunch on the 18th at a restaurant written up in the NYTimes, then Ash Wednesday service that night at an exquisite medieval cathedral in Lisbon. That will be the start of my new year, entering into new hopes and new possibilities, looking to what God places before me rather than looking for what I think “should” be. New growth ahead!