For me, my family, and for so many others 2009 was a very difficult year. In less than four days, 2009 will end. We will all begin 2010 as a New Year, but carrying the baggage of 2009 and the years that have gone before.
I am personally working to focus on certain fundamental goals and understandings in 2010, with the assumption that I will be alive and making choices every single day in the coming year.
Within my family
I resolve to assume good intent. That means that no one in my own family hurts my feelings or disappoints me on purpose. They are all doing the best they know how to do.
I also resolve to do my best to communicate as clearly as I can, and not assume I know what another family member is thinking.
Outside the family
I resolve to remember that life does not come with a promise of fairness and:
-all I can control at all is what I do or do not do.
-freedom for most of us, most of the time, is essentially the result of learned self discipline.
-compassion is a choice, not an inherited trait.
-to keep on learning, and never assume I know everything about anything.
That all being said, the Serenity Prayer does not wear out – and I wish you all a year of progress without being in dispair due to the lack of perfection in this life.
…for setting a good example of resolving to be one’s best self in the new year. I will try to emulate!
…it is over one’s own goals and actions.