I have had a bunch of New Year Days over my lifetime, but here is yet another. What should I do to make it outstanding? What can I do to maximize the days ahead?
Good questions, but that is all they were that day, just good questions.
They could be good resolutions, but I've never been too big on those. Too easy to write down in a flurry of thought, and too easy to forget.
So I jotted down some thoughts on a post-it note and stuck it to the front of my computer. At the very least I would see it every time I opened the cover, until the stickum gave out.
But yesterday, as I was driving home from some errands, a memory from pretty long ago flashed through my mind. My reaction to that past situation was "Man, I should not have acted like that, it was not right".
I have those flashbacks every so often, and, for a few seconds anyway, I live in regret of something that I had done, or something I should have done in that past era.
So I posed a new question:
How could I live in this new year that would lead to a life of "no regrets"?
And I wrote a new post-it with 3 points…
DO WHAT IS RIGHT..
DO MY BEST..
DO FOR OTHERS..
Each time I had a choice to make, and I had taken the "right" way.
Each time a responsibility came along, and I had done my very best.
Each time I had put others first, and got myself and my ego out of the way.
My bucketful of regrets would have shrunk exponentially, and I could smile at each recollection and not grimace.
As long as I am the photographer shadow above the tombstone and not the body underneath it, I have the opportunity to live that way.
So, I make a better note, and ask God to help me live that way in this year, and to pass on His Wisdom whenever I can.
Beginning now...
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