"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." - Edith Lovejoy Pierce
I have always found the notion of New Year's resolutions a bit like wishing or hoping. I believe that New Year's wants are more to my liking. Wants are answers to questions like:
What do I want in my life?
What do I want my magic to be?
How do I want people to perceive me?
How do I want to spend my time?
This New Years weekend, I will be developing my questions. The New Year will be turning the questions into answers and answers into action I want to take. Actions get us to where and how we want to be. There's that word again - want. Wants tend to drive us. Want seems like a Magic Word. Wishes and resolutions seem without purpose. May you achieve all your wants in 2012.
"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." - T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
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