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Date: 01 January 2011 17:52:45
I always used to enjoy the satisfaction of watching the mileometer on my Dad's car turning from a untidy looking number to one with many noughts. New Year feels a bit like that; fresh and unspoiled. Yet I soon realise that today is a day just like any other! That is not meant to sound defeatist and cynical, I just see it as a matter of fact. I hope that my resolve to live each day as best I can, by God's grace, and to have my failures in this forgiven by that same grace is good enough, whatever the date.
The question in the title was posed by one of my Depression Management group members, as an illustration of not trying to do too much at one time. The answer is 'A bit at a time.' In my opinion, resolutions made at the coldest, darkest part of the year are almost doomed to failure, unless you are one of those unusually iron-willed creatures (which I am most certainly not!) Winter, to me, is a time of conserving resources and survival, on a number of levels, and I do not plan to fight my biology on that one. Wake me up with the crocus, I am more likely to be able to make a start on the bulk of my elephant by that time.
That said, Happy New Year to you all and may all your elephants be palatable! :)