The turning of the clock into a New Year gives us a time to integrate the learning from last year and project forward into what might be in the year ahead.
If you have planned it appropriately, you may have this time of the year set up so that you are doing your life differently – you may be on holidays or you may simply be on a different daily schedule to what is normal.
This week can be a week not of work, but a week of dreaming of the possibilities that are lying in wait for you to uncover.
Further to the acknowledgement to Nelson Mandela that we made in last week’s blog, I think that the following words attributed to him are worthy of consideration this week.
“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair”.
This week, resolve to let your optimism come out and play. Embrace all of the things that could be. Make it a week of brainstorming, romancing and inventing. Make it a week of going for the ‘big kahuna’. Don’t settle for the small stuff. Make your global mission for humanity clear. To quote Mandela yet again, “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living”.
It’s a New Year so get about creating it.
