As I write, sitting in my bunk watching the sun set over the
estuary, its 8 15 pm on New Years Eve.
Traditionally a time of good wishes to all, a time for making
resolutions about what will or will not be happening next year, a time for
family and friends and a time for reflection.
estuary, its 8 15 pm on New Years Eve.
Traditionally a time of good wishes to all, a time for making
resolutions about what will or will not be happening next year, a time for
family and friends and a time for reflection.
To be sure its only another marker on an artificial
calendar, but it’s a useful marker, one that is close to the longest day of the
year where I live and the shortest where a lot of my friends live. It’s a time
when we get holiday breaks, some of which have theist backgrounds, some that
are pagan but its still the end of year break.
calendar, but it’s a useful marker, one that is close to the longest day of the
year where I live and the shortest where a lot of my friends live. It’s a time
when we get holiday breaks, some of which have theist backgrounds, some that
are pagan but its still the end of year break.
Its also a time when advice tends to be handed out, much of
which causes me to look at the advisor and think, you should take your own
advice buddy and if you did you’d be better off than you are, but occasionally there
is a gem.
which causes me to look at the advisor and think, you should take your own
advice buddy and if you did you’d be better off than you are, but occasionally there
is a gem.
Heres one that I heard yesterday.
“When making New Years Resolutions, don’t make ones you know
damn well you wont keep, don’t make ones that you know are beyond your ability,
but try making one, and ones enough, that is well within your capacity to
achieve, and work on it until its done.
You’ll get a lot of satisfaction from that, whereas to vow and fail just
reinforces a defeatist position.”
damn well you wont keep, don’t make ones that you know are beyond your ability,
but try making one, and ones enough, that is well within your capacity to
achieve, and work on it until its done.
You’ll get a lot of satisfaction from that, whereas to vow and fail just
reinforces a defeatist position.”
That’s good advice, a bit wordy though. I’d put it thus— “Get
yourself a mouthful of lifes good things, but don’t bite off more than you can
chew”.
yourself a mouthful of lifes good things, but don’t bite off more than you can
chew”.
All the very best to everyone for 2016.
John Welsford.
