Ring in the New Year

Ring in the New Year

I would like to start the year with some quotes. I love quotes. Maybe it is because they help to say what you or I may be thinking or could be thinking but I do not get the blame for such thinking, only the credit for finding the quotes. so enjoy my choice of quotes on this first day of 2011.

"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a New Year. It is that we should have New Soul. " G. K. Chesterton . I don't think I need a new soul The old one will do just nicely. I just want to use my soul in a better way.

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this; To rise above the little things." John Burroughs ...Someone once said that some people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits and that a New Year's Resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. Speaking of resolutions, there are some pointers that I remember learning way back when.

Be specific. (making general goals is bound to allow you to be confused and distracted and encourage you to stray ).

Have realistic goals . (if you try to do too much, you will be overwhelmed and will give up).

Make sure it is what you want to do and not what you think others want you to do. (when it is self motivated there is a greater chance of success)

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. " Benjamin Franklin. Is he referring to my being a better person or my finding a man...hmmm?

"It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets." William Thomas I never have regrets as such. I may feel sorry for some of the choices I made in that I may have offended someone but I honestly believe that all of these choices, the good and the bad, have put me where I am today, and I like where I am.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly , provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. " James Agate I like this one.

At any rate, I hope that this 2011 finds you happy and at peace most of the time and that one of your resolutions is to read my blog and share it with others.