3 Resolutions YOU need for 2023!
YOU are beginning! However you crossed the 2022 finish line, you are beginning this New Year! Bravo! It’s scary and exciting all at once!
I’m celebrating the New Year in Faro, Portugal where Ken and I are exploring with our son, RJ, and his gal, Bailey. It’s been a tremendous adventure filled with delightful surprises and opportunities to flex your positive mindset muscle that only international travel can bring!
Thank you for investing your talent and passion into inspiring generosity – for non-profit missions…and LIFE! It’s an honorable and noble calling. Here we are ready to launch again! There are those who go through laborious lists of tasks to prepare for the New Year. I think it comes down to 3 pretty simple resolutions – and none make you go to the gym, clean your piles or pledge massive changes.
THREE Resolutions You Need for 2023!
1. Resolve to be bigger than your problems.
It’s not the size of the problem; it’s the size of you! Think about how you struggled with zoom early 2020 – now it’s a cinch. Zoom hasn’t changed really. Perhaps there are more features – but what HAS changed is you – your growth in comfort with the tool. Being in Portugal now is a new language, new money, new streets – all doable with some time and thought.
“Every master was once a disaster.” (Eker). Everything new, or at least new to you, is scary at first. Fear shuts us down. Try instead to be curious. “I wonder how or what I could do to take a next step.” Know yourself. How do you feel most comfortable confronting something new – a person by your side showing you, an on-line tutorial, a class? Jay Wilkinson, Founder of Firespring, and tech wiz, collects new tools he sees and sets aside a Saturday morning each month to explore them. Good advice. As we navigated Portugal, we each had our ways of figuring it out.
2. Resolve to try again tomorrow.
There are lots of reasons thing don’t go as planned. Some issues seem to never get resolved and get frustrating. Some people we struggle don’t seem to change. You may feel worn out. It may look bleak. It may feel like it will never change. Have a nice dinner, watch a Disney movie, put it all aside. Tomorrow really IS another day. Life is overflowing with opportunities to begin again.
As Annie sings in the show, “Annie” “Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love you, tomorrow! You’re only a day away!”
And, the Japanese Proverb goes, “Fall down seven. Stand up eight.” It doesn’t matter how many times you fall down, fail, or get discouraged – as long as you stand up again. We learned this navigating narrow one-way streets when we were way too tired. Tomorrow IS another day.
3. Resolve that the world is basically good and you are here to thrive!
You choose how you walk through life. Sure, it’s not something you can constantly hold on to, but you DO choose to believe the world – the universe – God – is basically good. I choose to believe that I was placed here to THRIVE – be the best version of myself I can muster. Indeed there are manipulative people out there. Yet believing that you are destined to be successful and happy and LOOKING for signs towards what you define as success and happiness draws you to it – it must.
I say often in my talks that I believe there are people in Madison, Wisconsin who get out of bed in the morning and ask, “How can I be offended today?” And guess what? They find something!
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at….wait for it…CHANGE!
If you are looking for 2023 to be the best yet – it will be. I promise! HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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