Your Year Starts When You Say So
I bid you adieu 2013, you magnificent sonuvabitch. Can’t say that I’m excited to see 2013 go, because it was a great year for me personally. A lot of change, a lot of challenge, and a lot of growth. Didn’t accomplish everything that I wanted to, but I got a good amount of it done with some interesting goals to carry into 2014.
A significant amount of people — but less than you’d think, going by MOTIVATIONAL FACEBOOK PAGE #3423 — look to the start of the year as a chance to for a clean slate. Speaking from experience, you don’t need the beginning of a new one for that clean slate. It’s a mindset you have to take on, which will help you form habits that better yourself. Like the immortal snowball rolling down a hill, just start small until you can build it into something bigger, slowly yet surely. This was probably the most valuable lesson I learned in 2013, and what I felt shaped this year for me.
Aim big and be open to change. Recipe for (varying) success.
What’s in store for my 2014? Travel to exotic and potentially hot land(s); taking another stab at learning Spanish; giving the piano another serious shot; launching my pet marketing project here on the blog (more on that for you soon); other joys of adulthood like property tax and bills; and above all, being a little bit more heady about where my career is going, which is the kind of thing that only comes with time. As you can probably guess, the rest of the list is fairly varied and kinda long. I expect to come up short in terms of achieving everything because of this, but who ever made a splash by playing it safe?
New journeys beginning, old ones ending, and a steady stream of surprises is a familiar recipe for most years but one that was embodied by 2013 — count on 2014 being in the same section of the cookbook. Although it’s early, get a start on those goals of yours because time is the only resource you’re constantly running out of. Try to stop saying no when you can say now.
With that, here’s me wishing you a rewarding and successful 2014 that hits higher heights than the last go-around. As they say, out with the old and in with the new year.
(Sorry — the subtitle IS bad puns, so you knew what you were getting into.)
– Mike
PS — Would love to hear what some of you have planned for this year, whether they’re a resolution or not. Always interested in seeing what others are up to, so drop a line here or with the social buttons in the corner. Cheers!
i have a bunch of car related goals that i can bore you with later in person. 😛
Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it. We live on the future: “tomorrow,” “later on,” “when you have made your way,” “you will understand when you are old enough.” Such irrelevancies are wonderful, for, after all, it’s a matter of dying. Yet a day comes when a man notices or says that he is thirty. Thus he asserts his youth. But simultaneously he situates himself in relation to time. He takes his place in it. He admits that he stands at a certain point on a curve that he acknowledges having to travel to its end. He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy. Tomorrow, he was longing for tomorrow, whereas everything in him ought to reject it. That revolt of the flesh is the absurd.
-Camus