Did you see the spectacular firework display which dazzled crowds in London on New Year’s Eve? Approximately 100,000 people gathered to watch the 15-minute spectacular along the Thames, with over 12,000 fireworks, together with drones and lights!
There’s no doubt about it – somebody was thinking big when it came to this year’s celebrations and it really worked.
But of those 100,000 people who were there to wach the display, for how many of them will 2024 really mark a new beginning?
What exactly were they celebrating? Most of them were ringing out the old and, they believe, erroneously, that they were ringing in the new and that the new year will somehow of its own volition be ‘better’.
But the reality is that it won’t be a ‘New’ Year at all for most people.
Those who are controlled by other people – and other peoples’ agendas – by accepted and unchallenged rules and norms and cant’s, by negative emotions like guilt, obligation or fear, by criticism or fear of it, by financial weakness, by whatever, well,, theirs isn’t a New Year at all, is it?
YOU can do a lot better because you’ve been exposed to a lot more; you possess knowledge and skill, awareness of opportunity, almost certainly some financial strength and other resources. Don’t squander it by surrendering control.
CONTROL is both goal and means of achieving goals. Used properly it will ensure that your year is genuinely better than any you’ve had before!
Image: courtesy of Unsplash – Isaac Smith