Think Small: Planning for a Happy New Year

Think Small: Planning for a Happy New Year

Consider this: collaboration rather than competition.

Consider this: doing good for others is doing good for yourself.

Consider this: maybe earning more money is not as important as spending less money.

Consider this: peace starts with yourself, then your house, then your community, then your world. So if you are at war with yourself, put down your weapons.

Consider this: Save yourself before you save the world. Love yourself before you love the world. How do you do it? By reaching out to the person next to you. Together we’re stronger.

Consider this: kindness is strength. Say thank you, and mean it.

Consider this: a day spent resting, thinking, listening, feeling, smelling, being alive, is a day worth living.
Cultivate the possibilities of quiet.

Consider this: learn something new.

Consider this: write your eulogy. If you’re not happy with what it says, write the eulogy you would like. That is your blueprint.

Consider this: give a quiet gift to the world. Post a love letter on a public wall, or share a piece of art, or knit-bomb a light post, or take a photograph and share it. A tiny stone/ripple etc.

Consider this: change.org, kiva.org, kickstarter.com. There are lots more. Collaborate. Work for good, whatever your small part might be.

Consider this: write your manifesto—start by saying, My Mission Is…

Consider this: only you know what is stopping you from being and doing everything in the world you want to be, and do. Only you know how to remove that barrier. But you have friends willing to help, if you reach out to them. So reach out.