How to Change You Perspective for the New Year

Before making that list of New Year's resolutions, and listing all those things that you should change, start the New Year with a new perspective, instead. Up until this point you have traded the sum total of your lives to become what you are now. Was it worth it?

Every individual will in the world be given the same number of hours in the up-coming year, a total of 8736 hours; it's how they are invested can makes a difference. Some people will live in regret for what they have failed to do, others will make lemonade out of lemons. The Annie Sullivan's will teach the mute to talk and the Al Bundy's will sit in front of the television with their hands in their pants. How will you invest your yours?

In January millions of people will make lists of changes that will some how be discarded in the weeks to come. Some will vow to quit smoking, loose weight, buy a new car or find a better job. How many will vow to teach a child to read, help the disabled to walk, or feed the hungry? You can choose to see myself as over-weight and berate myself as a glutton, or you can be grateful and choose to share my abundance with someone less fortunate. An attitude of gratitude changes ever thing.

You can complain of lack of finances to do the things you desire, or you can get a second job teaching the disabled in a group home. You can complain that you have nobody to love, or you can reach out to a senior in a nursing home and hold her hand. You can complain of boredom, yr You can write a book, a song or, a symphony. You I can see my neighbor as dirty, sinful, and lazy, or You can give him soap, forgiveness and something to live for.

Pictures are often deceiving. What appears to be is not always true. The mind like a camera can only hold one perspective or picture at a time. If you stand up, and shift your focus, the picture will always change. Walk a mile in someone else's moccasin and your perspective of that individual will be changed forever. You can choose to change thoughts that hurt, You can try to remember that fear is False Illusion Appearing Real, and you can choose thoughts of love. For truly it is that thoughts held in mind produce after their kind. Make a New Year's resolution to change your mind and change the world in the coming year!