Sustaining Positivity Throughout the New Year

As with every 31^st of December and the 1^st of January when the calendar year changes, it brings with it new hopes, new expectations, new vigour and both the individuals as well as corporates look forward to the ensuing year with enthusiasm in the hope that the unhappy events of the year gone by will not repeat themselves and that this will be a new beginning.

In my opinion, people are looking at new experiences, with the anticipation that they will be able to utilise their experience to counter the challenges of the new year.

Actually, it is only an event in our lives.  At the end of every day, week, month, a new set of events are planned to unfold but we never celebrate them.  We tend to collect our good and bad memories, pile them up in a stack and then look behind to connect the dots.  What we learn from them, some pleasant and some unpleasant, give us hope and expectation to build the New Year.

What happens in the process is that the new bride becomes the home-maker and she soon settles down to her new life.  Likewise, we too forget that we are in the New Year and that we should be high in spirits (not the alcohol) type, and that we must remain buoyant and not let our expectations die down so soon but we soon get used to the daily chores that we forget that we are not to let our disappointments, disagreements, failures, miseries to pull us down.  Remind yourself every day that nothing – you will not allow anything to demoralise you and that the year ahead is still full of hope and expectations.

Therefore, observe the following:

• When you get up in the morning, say a BIG HI! To yourself! Say it loudly so that others may be able to hear you clearly.  It will not only energise you but will energise everybody around you.  It will bring a smile on their faces.  Initially, your behaviour may appear as strange but when they start observing you over a period of time, you will be able to hear them reciprocate with a smile on their faces.  Who knows, you might just bring some energy into their dull and boring lives.

• When you return home, tell people positive stories about how your day has been.  Share with your family what has not gone well with you during the day but do not emphasise on it too much.  Talk about the event but do not discuss who was responsible or its impact.  However, you must close the talk with the positives again so that a positive environment is created else people will go to bed with worries on their mind and will lose sleep.

• Do not forget that with the passing of every day, it is only a day, 24 hours, 1440 minutes, 86,400 seconds have passed and you will be blessed with a similar amount of second, minutes and hours will be gifted to you tomorrow.  However, it is important not to carry a hangover of the previous day or you might end up wasting a fresh new day with the same worries. It is akin to wearing a blind fold and entering in a new day, not being able to see the opportunities that the new day brings to you.

• At the end of the day, make a list of things you want to do the next day so that you have a clear road-map of how you want to utilise the new day.  If you don’t follow this, you will lose time, thinking about the events gone by and not being able to focus on the day ahead of you.

Do share your thoughts on the four broad suggestions proposed above

Sarfaraz Lakhani

Calibre Creators

 www.calibrecreators.com