What are Your Plans for the New Year?
Are you where you want to be in life? Or do you
feel you need to get your act together this year?
āIn this life you will have problems, obstacles, oppositions, and things meant to discourage you,ā says Jonathan Cahn in the January issue of Sapphires magazine. āBut hereās the key: No matter whatās against you, no matter what the problem or conflict, no matter what the discouragementādonāt get wrapped up in the problem that is against you. Just keep building. Just keep moving forward.āĀ
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On New Yearās Day, I felt stuck between the old year and the new one without the mental energy to figure out what I needed to do to āget my act togetherā this year. I felt overwhelmed by the number of things on my to-do list Iād carried over from last yearāthings still undone either because I couldnāt find enough time or lacked the motivation to do them.
The Collins Dictionary defines āget your act togetherā as āorganizing your life or affairs so youāre able to achieve what you want or deal with something effectively.ā All I wanted to do on January 1 was ignore my to-do list and extend the lovely two-week annual vacation Iād given myself for the holiday season.
āI need the month off!ā I told my sister Mollie, who reminded me that I was my own boss. āYouāre in control of your life, so forget your to-do list for a while and just do what you want to do when you want to do it.ā
Thatās why this Bulletin, usually published early in the month, is two weeks late, and why it took me until January 15 to do my usual first-of-the-month home page update and publish my āPersonal MUSINGSā blog post. I hope youāll take the time to read āIn What Season of Life Are YouĀ Now?ā It discusses the four seasons of life and the importance of reflecting on where you are in lifeās journey. I hope this writing will prompt you to think about what you did last year that you might want to do differently this year.
Now that Iāve screwed up my whole publishing schedule, Iām trying to deal effectively with the writing/scheduling problem Iāve created for myself. For starters, future Brabec Bulletins will be short (300ā500 words) and on a life-related topic I hope many will find interesting or helpful. As for getting my whole act together, Iām taking Jonathan Cahnās advice to keep moving forward. And if something blocks my way, Iāll look for a way to go around it. My ultimate goal this year is to further simplify my life and free up some time to finish Call of the Heart: A Rescue Dogās Dreamāmy first work of fiction based on a true story. Wish me luck!Ā
A new āTidbits on Lifeā will follow shortly, and Iāll be back early in February with more to say. As usual, I welcome your comments if you'd like to tell me what youāre doing or want to do differently this year.
First published as a Brabec Bulletin on January 19, 2024.
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