It is tempting to give in to the gloom around and moan about what a bad year 2009 has been. As someone who has striven to cultivate an attitude of gratitude over the years, I definitely beg to differ. I believe we all have a lot to be grateful for, for the passing year.
The fact that we are alive and well, and have somewhere in mind to spend the New Year’s Eve is something to be grateful for. For all the journey mercies, new friends made, lessons learned, with hope still alive and a determination for a better day next year.
A lot of us had our financial nest eggs depleted by the stock market crash during the year. Some of us lost jobs, and others missed a hoped-for promotion. Some ended the year still looking for the hoped-for job, and on and on.
What makes a good year is not how much we have accumulated or how many times we shouted for joy, but what we have become, and how many lives we have touched. On our journey to the top, how much we have accumulated along the way does not count as much as how much closer we are to who we were born to be and what we were born to do.
We have to progressively evolve into who we were born to be, as we get on with what we were born to do. That is the progress that counts in time and eternity. To be able to do that, we have to remain alive, and in one piece. We need our faculties intact. We need to go out and come back safely, to be healthy, have food to eat, safe water to drink, a roof over our heads, and a shirt on our backs. If you are reading this, it means you made it through the year. You have so much to be thankful for.
I had a very good year. Apart from getting my finances in better shape, I have read more books this passing year than all the books I read since I left the university. I have learned so much, and I am beginning to feel like an expert in many fields. I am using my brain more, and sometimes I hiss with frustration when a brilliant idea comes to me at an odd moment with no piece of paper to trap it on, for all time.
I am not the person I was on January 1, 2009. I have come a very long way, much closer to my dreams and much farther away from where I started. I see change wherever I look, and I am encouraged to go the whole nine yards to produce the change I want to see in each season of my life. I have gained a lot of control over my finances, and more on the driver’s seat than I was earlier in the year. I have gained a lot of momentum I need in becoming a better and wiser me in 2010, God giving me life.
I have come to see that the more I give, the more I receive. I am ready to give more next year, through books I am currently writing, and speaking. It is a great time to be alive, and make a positive difference in the face of gloom all around.
If you look closer at all the blessings that came your way in 2009, you too will find so much to be grateful for. The stuff in your “yet to happen list” will surely come to pass one day. Some may never, as God in his infinite mercies says no. Whatever happens, your latter days shall be greater than the former. As you build your financial intelligence, you will become more and more in control, and locate your exit to the rat race to attain financial freedom and your dreams
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010
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