YEAR END REFLECTIONS....Day Five

December 31st...Day 5 ‘YEAR END REFLECTIONS’

It’s New Year’s Eve.  Today is the last day of the year; the last day of a decade. A new year begins at mid-night; three hundred and sixty-six days to start anew.  The extra day is due to this is a Leap Year.  I wrote a piece in 2012 about goals for a new year.  This was composed on the sixth day of the new year.  A very true event caused me to write this. Today as we celebrate the end of one year and beginning of a new, think  about the verse.  If making goals, aspirations or intentions for 2020, the advice in the poem will be helpful.  Don’t give up if you break a resolution; begin again. 

Until tomorrow....Happy New Year!

GOALS FOR THE NEW YEAR

© Scottie-ann Murphy

The ball drops in Times Square each year 

at the stroke of midnight 

  one year ends....another year begins

To ourselves we make New Year’s 

    resolutions 

   promises to change....to make our lives    

         better

     or to do something we may have wanted 

        but never took the opportunity 

We may decide to loose weight,

 begin an exercise routine 

  save more money....spend less

    or take time to stop and smell the flowers

These good intentions we begin on the first 

     day of the year

       hoping each day to see these through 

Unfortunately by February first, many have      

      been broken

Aspirations made on January first seem 

       attainable at the time

The objectives we begin at the start of the 

      New Year 

      gives us feelings of accomplishment 

We begin to eat healthy, start the exercise 

       routine

take up the hobby and make life changes

  these objectives are King term

When we break one or two....we become     

     defeated 

      failing in our Big Plan

Instead of abandoning our new goals 

 we should pick up the broken pieces....

  and begin anew

Each year I make goals that I hope to 

    accomplish 

My intentions this year will be to re-start 

    those I break

Then again....maybe long term goals should 

     not be in my plan

Perhaps I should make a list of intentions....

    then try to conquer only one each month

My first goal for the New Year....I will write in 

     my journal EVERYDAY 

Today, the sixth of January....

    Item one on my list has already been 

         broken