Assess: New Year's Revolutions

original art by Kate Kroska

Musing…  

I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.  - Rabindranath Tagore

This is the time of year that we resolve to change something in our life, and by week 3, we realize we’re unable to sustain our resolution. Our old habits pull us back into that well-worn rut. Revolution: revolving around that orbit (path) again, and again, and again.

I say we choose THIS definition: “ a radical, complete and fundamental change; overthrowing one system and substituting with another”. We’ve seen plenty of this in our world recently. What is the change YOU wish to become in 2012?

Kate’s Turn: 

I rather like this perspective on change: throwing something off that just doesn’t fit anymore, rather than putting effort into making myself change. Perhaps deep beneath our conditioned self lies a creative, powerful being, waiting to be freed from restriction, fear and sabotage to express its unique gift to the world. Of course, I believe this!  So as I look forward in 2012, I ponder what it is I wish to leave behind, what outdated, ineffective system do I wish to overthrow. This is about letting the false layers fall away to reveal the truth of who we are. So as I imagine reviewing my year at the end of 2012, I am satisfied and delighted with all the expressions of creativity I risked – in my art, my work, my life, and I am so proud of all the times I looked fear in the face and said “What do I have to lose?  I’m betting on the love/fire in my heart!”

I, along with Oriah Mountain Dreamer, offer you this New Year’s Wish:

“ . . .. that we live our deepest Soul's desire not by intending

                             to change who we are but by intending to be who we are." 

- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Get Fired Up: 

Allow Steve Jobs to inspire you to go for that radical and fundamental change you desire:

"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
       - Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement address, June 12, 2005