I was shopping in town yesterday and dropped by the hat store which is run by this lovely couple although the wife is...hmm, how shall I put this....slightly intense. I must admit I kind of prefer it when only the husband is working, the wife scares me a little although I really do like her.
They were both working yesterday, and I found the most darling little hat as a late Christmas present to me, and when I took the hat up to the counter the wife exclaimed over its cuteness and then took my hands in hers and said something like "let's vow right now that next year will be the best one ever." Yeah, ok, the hat WAS cute but I don't think it's going to change my life. But then she said something that got me thinking - "It's not enough just to make a vow, I'm a firm believer that change only happens when we act on our vow. We've got to MAKE next year the best one ever."
I feel like 2011 happened to me, I just laid down and let it run over me without doing anything to stop it. I want things to change but I haven't been acting to make it happen, I've just been waiting for stuff to happen to me. That's got to change, I feel like I wasted a whole year, like I put things in motion in January and then dropped the ball.
So today I picked up a month's worth of accumulated mail and there was one of those catalogs that they send out at Christmas time with all sorts of plaques with pithy sayings. A few of them spoke to me, things I want to keep in mind next year so that I don't waste another 365 days. Here's one for today:
I cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from passing over my head but I can keep them from building a nest in my hair.
"I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams
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Oh my gosh, Jonni, I've been thinking the same thing! For the past couple of years I've posted my goals in a prominent place, but I never seem to act on them. Last year, I made them attainable, but only if I worked at them...and I didn't. I realized that I wasted an entire year that I can never get back with goals that I could have accomplished. It would have made such a difference in my year and in my life. I vow that this year will be different!
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