A New Year Beckons
29 12 2006Wow! I don’t know about you, but I always get excited about a brand new year. I say goodbye to the outgoing year that will soon be no more – with thanks for having come through it, and not too much dwelling on the fact that now we’re a year older – at the same time as I look forward to welcoming in the brand new year.
At work today, we left early, with everyone saying “Happy New Year and “See you you in 2007!” Then there’s the one minute before midnight, doing the countdown when we step from one year into another…
Being a Brit abroad, with my family in England I mark the start of the new year twice. At 7 pm in Canada it will already be 2007 in England and we’ll have wished everyone there a happy new year, before we celebrate the new year here in Toronto.
The New Year brings to mind those things.. called Resolutions. I don’t make new year resolutions because somehow I never ever managed to keep them in the past. For some strange reason fwhenever I made new year resolutions the action set up a corresponding and immediate invitation to break them. By the time March came around they’d be abandoned and forgotten them.
But I do review the year, what I’ve done, become, achiieved, what I’ve learned (or not) and set goals for the year, which I write down and review at intervals through the year.This really works for me. I’ve been doing this for several years now and have found that I achieve most of the goals I write down. It’s actually pretty amazing to look back during the year and see the goals I have achieved - that of course means I set new ones. The key for me is not merely thinking them, but writing them down and setting a time around them. There is something very powerful about writing down goals and intentions. I believe it sets in motion the elements of what is needed to bring the goal. And the journey is always interesting!
So what about you? How was 2006 for you? Did you have a high point? A low point? Surprises? Are you looking forward to 2007? Do you set goals? Or do you make resolutions? If you make resolutions, how well have you kept them? What works for you?
Wishing you a safe, happy and prosperous New Year! 
well with any luck i am getting married this year, have to sort out paperwork, she is an american, but wants to become a british citizen. so got that to look forward too. the low point was staying with a woman with no skills other than opening her legs (my fiances dad had a houseguest, who had 3 kids each with a different father and she tried to break me and my other half up).. that was my low point
it’s strange that if you think about it, the only difference between 2006 and 2007 is one second, yet we make such celebrations out of it. this is coming from the new year eve’s scrooge who’s never ever celebrated nye, heh.
there were high and low points, but i guess they aren’t as significant now because nothing in particular comes to mind! let’s hope 2007 is more dramatic.
The Sun must look at the Earth and think “here we go again, another time they’ve gone round me and now the little iddy biddy creatures are all excited”.
I’m glad we get excited because to me - and to many - no matter how you celebrate it it’s a Big Deal
And, to many it’s more than the difference of a second or two. A new year represents new hope, new opportunities, new start, renewed reason to count our blessings, and even new resolve to leave some things in the old year and look forward. And celebrating the New Year is of course a great opportunity to wish others, sometimes perfect strangers, what we’d wish for ourselves… a very happy and successful new year 
I agree with you. I was just saying the poor old Sun never gets a new year. It’s good to have regular regrouping points in life or we’d just trundle along.