HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wow!  It’s January 1, 2012.

What Dreams, possibilities, opportunities and adventures are to be realized this year? 

Now there are 7 billion of us.

That’s formidable competition but an incredible demand for goods and services. 

Perhaps you’ve already made your New Year’s Resolutions, and some of us, no doubt, have already broken a few!  But we soldier on.

Some – and perhaps more than normal with the Mayan Calendar crisis looming – would say that we should live each day as though it were our last.  Others would say that we should live as though today is the first day of the rest of our lives. 

However, I’m going to suggest that we live each moment of each day in this new year with Total Intentionality … with purpose … and as though a positive outcome is entirely within our grasp – if we will only apply ourselves to the best of our ability.  What more could we really ask for than to have a chance to grow to be all that we can be and to prove ourselves to be all that we are? 

Here’s wishing you all that you can be in this New Year,

and may your rewards be legion!

A TOAST TO LIFE

TO LIFE:

For better or worse,

For richer or poorer,

In sickness and in health,

‘til death do us part,

We’re MARRIED to it!

In point of fact,

Not one of us can do much about how we got here,

Nobody knows ^___ really ^___ how much of it we’ve got,

Not one of us gets out of it alive,

And

Very few of us get more out of it than we put in.

A day is no less precious than a year,

Or a decade, or even a whole generation,

If it’s well spent.

How much MORE of it would I bargain for … if I could?

And with what justification?

If we have learned anything from life at all,

It is that we can’t bargain … no matter how deeply desired or impeccably justified.

We can “hedge” a little or a lot by taking care of ourselves,

But, in the end, Life chooses its own terms.

All we can do is give the best account of ourselves for the privilege.

Nonetheless, most curiously,

It is life’s terms that have given us each TODAY.

LIFE has chosen YOU and it has chosen ME!

For better or worse,

For richer or for poorer,

And all the rest:

So let us LIVE IT … FILL IT … DO LIFE NOW … 

Let there be no effort spared … nothing “left on the field”.

Then let there be a CELEBRATION OF LIFE in all of its fullness,

And

Let there be no regrets!

TO LIFE!!

copyright©2000 Lewis A. Kelly