The Holidays are nearly over. 🙁 Sad as it is for me, I do look foward to the new year. Of course in the looking forward there is also the looking back. Wondering, “Where has this year gone?”! While I have seen so much accompished this year, there is so much left undone. With all of the New Year’s resolutions Ben and I have already made, we have a very busy year ahead of us. (I guess that is a good thing, have you ever heard the phrase “If each of us have so many things to accomplish on this earth, I am so far behind I will never die!”?)
In thinking about all I want to do this year, and with my life in general, I was inspired by Jill Koenig and a story she shared on her blog a few days ago. She wrote about the Christmas song that almost never was. A very lonely Russian Song writer who had moved to Beverly Hills without his wife and children had written part of a song and put it away. Two years later he decided to finish it. Written by a man who could neither read nor write musical notation, it had fifty-four words, sixty-seven notes, and became the most sold song in the world. It is now considered a Christmas classic, and has been recorded over and over by different artist and featured in many movies, one of which shared the same title as the song. The author: Irving Berlin. The song: White Christmas.
Out of the hundreds of songs that this music-illiterate Russian immigrant wrote he is most remembered for the song that almost never was. We don’t really know why he put it away, or even why he pulled it out again. But the important thing is he did!
Jill asks us “What unfinished project, idea, or dream do you have stored away somewhere?” What gift do you hold that you have not released to the world yet? Maybe when you started it, or thought about starting it, it wasn’t the right time. Maybe you thought you couldn’t do it because you were not skilled enough, or good enough. Maybe now you wonder if it is too late. It is not! Make 2007 a year to dust off the old dreams, ideas and plans, and finish the race that you have started!
Take the small baby step: Simply sit down today and write out what your goals are for 2007. Remember there is power in writing things down!
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