This time of year is all about goal setting, excitement for what’s to come, and hope for things to get better.
I love it.
It’s interesting to me that no matter how incredible or horrendous the last year was we are always ready to leave it behind and move on. We accept the change easily and move forward with high hopes and anticipation.
New Years is one of the only times that we, as humans, are happy to leave greatness behind and look forward to the possibility of what could be. Usually we hang on because we are comfortable and afraid of change.
What if 2018 had been your best year ever and you didn’t want to let it go? What would it look like if you stayed in 2018 because you were familiar with it and it was so good you couldn’t let go?
For the first little bit you could pull it off, but the longer you resisted it the harder your life would get. You would have to put up a fight every time the subject of the date showed up. But that’s ok because it was so great in 2018, it’s worth fighting for.
You might fight with authority when your I.D. expired, or the customs agent when your passport expired… booking your travel was so much easier in 2018 wasn’t it? All of the days of the week lined up with date back then. You would write stale dated cheques and you would pay the bills from 2018 because things were cheaper then and things were rolling, and you might fight with the bill companies about what you owe.
I could go on and on, but you get the point. It would be ridiculous to not accept the new year and roll with it. Yet we do it all of the time in other ways. Life is always bringing change and we are always fighting to hang on to what’s old and comfortable.
If you can remember how easily you accepted 2019, and how you felt about the possibility the change holds, you can adapt that framework to other situations where you feel yourself resisting and fighting change.
Life is much easier when you accept what’s coming and look forward to the possibility it’s bringing. Let yourself flow for 2019, there is great possibility in every little or big change that is coming your way.
And remember, when you resist change by hanging on to the places where you’re comfortable it makes everything else ridiculously hard.