New Year's Resolutions - Coming Soon

While working on the holiday lists, and contemplating all that needs to be done, why not take a break to think over the last year?

Suggestion for preparing to make a New Year's Resolution:
Use the time in the car, in the shower, on the couch for 5 minutes to look back at the year and really appreciate what this year was about for you. What have you accomplished? What have you learned this year? What do you appreciate most that has come this year? Try to keep it positive for now... but look at those things you really appreciated about your own approach to your family life, to your work, and to your creative practices.

Also, what have you really appreciated from others? Who showed you a special kindness you still remember? Who was it that just did that little extra you never said "thank you" for?

Be thinking of how you might be able to move into some special kind of giving in the next year. Nothing is solid. Just looking, watching, listening to how things are happening. Are you enjoying what you are doing for others? Are they enjoying being with you? How do want them to experience life with you?

Try not to make lists for next year, yet. Just use this time to watch how things are happening without changing anything.

I bet you'll be surprised to find some new delight you never fully appreciated before. If you don't see one... try to be more the observer and less the critic for now. Let the ideas come when they come instead of purposefully trying to think of them.