Welcome
2006 - A Year of New Beginnings. On this New Year, I wish you Health, Wealth
and Happiness, for the year ahead.
Though
it is good to believe that every new day is a new start, a New year is extra special for it gives us the
extra impetus to start upon those many things we have always wanted to do , but
did not find the time to do. On this New Year, commit yourself to a new
activity, which has always fascinated you but you have been reluctant. We tend
to sink when things get too heavy on us, but that is how we build our stress
muscles. Look at a weight lifting champion, he gains strength from lifting
heavier loads. Never shrink to new ideas, never say, “This is not for me”. Of
course, I do not mean to say that you should get diverted from your existing
tasks, but try to find time for new things. Life gets boring if there are no changes, if there are no new things
happening in our life, if we are not
developing any new skills every year, we may become a 386 model computer, in
this Pentium ‘D’ age.
Every
New Year, people make new resolutions, but hardly stick to it for a month or
two. It is suggested that our New Year resolutions should have a list of things
which say, I should do” rather than say “I should stop”. Let me explain how it
works. If I have some unhealthy habit that I would like to disown, the best
thing is to replace the habit with a good one. For example, if I plan to cut
down on Soft Drinks, the best way is to substitute my intake of Synthetic Soft
Drinks with a Natural Fruit Juice or some other healthy option. If I just
decide to stop the habit, all of a sudden, the craving will continue and it
will be difficult, but if I replace it with a fruit juice, it will be easier to
get rid of the old one. Similarly when we add new tasks to your life, we have
more choices with our time and we would ultimately choose the ones which adds energy
to our life, rather than the ones that drain the energy of our life.
Happy
Reading,
D. Senthil Kannan
Article
Dated Jan 2006
