With a New Year, are new rules!
Now that the New Year has arrived, I must reprogram my mind to write 2018. I wonder how many times I will ruin a check or document by writing 2017, until I get it right. I will also have to reprogram my mind not to, or to do, the things on my New Year’s resolution list. Like not eat sweets and get up and get on the treadmill or go out and walk if the weather permits.
The term, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, isn’t true, but it takes a lot more incentive to make that old dog want to do anything new! We make these New Year’s resolutions with good intentions. We want to be better people both mentally and physically. Instilling good healthy habits into our daily routine is good for our life in the upcoming year. But being comfortable makes breaking bad habits harder. Who intentionally wants to be sore and introduce new aches and pains? It is a bit on the macabre if you ask me. But if I reprogram my mind to believing that this is good for both mind, body and spirit, it may work. HOPE=the longing or desire for something accompanied by the belief in the possibility of its occurrence. I certainly hope this reprogramming will work, because the outcome could be monumental to me.
What New Year’s resolutions have you made? To go back to school and get that long sought after degree? To be more involved with family and friends? Maybe to lose weight, or change your style of hair and makeup? How about be more active in church and community activities? The list is endless, with some even pledging to find Mr. Right and get married. Whatever is on your list, it is going to take some reprogramming to obtain. Just like your GPS when you make a wrong turn, some recalculating/reprogramming is required to stay on the course you have set for yourself. Good Luck in the coming year and the goals you have set for yourself!
As parents we need to teach our children to keep on the right path. The Bible is a lamp unto their feet and a light to their path. It is so much easier to stay on a path than to find your way back to it!
We as writers often make resolutions to be better writers by being diligent about our writing practices. Just like everyone else, it takes some reprogramming of our brains to accomplish this task. But I am sure, it will be well worth it!
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Romans 12:2
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Proverbs 4:10-13
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
I Peter 1:13