Grandiose or daily?

Thoughts as we start

That first cup of coffee today is not merely Monday but New Year’s Day coffee! Was as spectacular as it should be as was the sunrise.

The year in strategy, in driving, in politix , in gratitude are set by what we do repeatedly rather than single grandiose actions on a single day like 1 January. Why is that so hard for us to learn that big things are not as common as the hour by hours events of our lives? We tend to think of ‘one offs’, like an huge wedding, instead of patterns, like deciding for 47 years who will take out the rubbish, as the IMPORTANT in life.

It is all important as we have so much we can do with our lives when we put our minds to it. Instead, most of us agonies over the huge while the smaller passes by underappreciated.

Humans are lucky that time continues. Each and every minute offers us more data to process and ‘gronculate’, as a former colleague used to say, everything in our lives. This allows us to make changes where we need to day to day if we appreciate the need to change them.

Overall, I suspect paying attention, which is nothing other than slowing down, is what I really need do in 2024. It is so easy to tell myself I am doing paying more attention than most people but I suspect too often I only partially slowing or focusing.

Seemingly inconsequential individual steps, especially done repeated, are actions creating consequences. I hope this year allows each of us to appreciate at least one small thing we would like to change, then gives us to motivation to change that thing instead of only looking for seismic changes.

Life is made of big shifts and repeated steps, in fact.

I hope you have a great year of satisfying small steps and well as grand ones in 2024.

Thank you for being part of this column as you motivate me daily. Please send me any thoughts!

Be well and be safe. FIN