We mark our lives by time. There are anniversaries and holidays and the mark of a new year. There are work weeks and play dates and long awaited vacations. Our lives progress in a steady fashion if it not for the marking of time. Humans often need markers to stop one thing and start another: reminders to hug their spouse, or pray to God. For others, these time markers mean less and less, for they hug their spouse all the time and pray continuously. They know they can stop a bad habit at any time or pick up a new service to mankind without prompting. They spend time with their family and focus on their work and walk the dog and check the roast and do these things more by feeling and less by direction or a cultural calendar. Today is the marking of a New Year but you are still you unless you make a change. And the easiest way to change is to do so gradually by changing your perspective. Most people have an eschewed perspective of themselves and the world around them. What perspective would you like to change about yourself that would enhance your life today, tomorrow, next year? Breathe in and out and notice what it would take to move, naturally, in a new direction. Start today, or tomorrow, or the next day, but regardless of when, the hardest part is often the first step. Feel that you can take that step; know it in your body/mind/spirit. Be the change by changing your perspective and the first step will come naturally. Blessings to you and yours.
