“We don’t get to know what’s coming next – when the peaceful or challenging or terrifying periods might arise. Everything rests on our capacity to navigate from moment to moment, making the best decisions we can and not allowing ourselves to be disheartened by the ways in which our journey doesn’t exactly map the plans we might have had for it. In this situation, the only action that really matters is the one (we) take right now.”
- Oliver Burkeman, author of “Meditations for Mortals…” in an op-ed piece in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal (titled Radical Doability)
“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions…”
– Joey Adams (1911 – 1999), American comedian and columnist for the New York Post
New Year’s resolutions. Gag…
The Diff annually eschews them, and this post maintains that commitment. Besides, most folks will ditch their commitment to becoming a different kind of person less than 30 days into the new year.
Burkeman closes the article by suggesting: “So let 2025 be the year when you finally stop trying to become a different kind of person and instead start doing a few things differently; one message to a friend… one workout. Not later, but right now, in the only lifetime any of us ever get.”
Incremental over grandiose. Foundational over spectacular. Faith, trust and peace over control and fear. This moment over what’s already happened or what may happen.
More better than New Year’s resolutions.
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