New Year, New Job, New outlook...

Most of us welcomed 2010 with renewed exuberance, while we waved good bye to 2009 thinking, whispering or yelling “go, go, I wouldn’t wish you back...” we are looking ahead to 2010 with high expectations and hopes.

I am not one to do New Year’s resolutions, simply because I believe that resolutions can happen all year around and because I find the whole New Year resolution idea both sort lived and demeaning to the person. It’s like giving ourselves an excuse to start over but with a bail out clause in the end. How many of us signed up to a gym in the beginning of a year hoping to welcome the Summer with an all new body, only to find ourselves going for a month and then finding all kinds of excuses after that? How many of us felt compelled to have a resolution only because it’s been the thing to do and to show solidarity to our fellow citizens? New Year’s resolutions are not for me, I find them very limiting to the point of suffocations.

You can imagine my surprise when 2010 started for me with both a new Job and a new plan for the next few years. Granted the whole life plan has been a working progress for the past year and the new job it just happen upon me. Nevertheless, 2010 looks very exciting thus far. After an emotionally charged and life changing 2009, 2010 promises a new balance, more challenges, knowledge and adventures. At the moment it feels like it will be one of those years that I put every question, every association, every ideal and idea in a bucket shot out the ones worth keeping and throwing away the rest. Often we hold on to things and people only because we are used to them, knowing that they don’t have any positive impact to our lives. Why not get rid of all the negative, unproductive and destructive influences to allow attachment to new ideas and people that will be good for us? Why not indeed!

So I raise my glass to 2010, I wink and smile with an inner satisfaction that brings peace to the soul...

Wishing all a very happy and healthy 2010!