New Year’s eve is when many of the promises, which won’t be kept anyway, are made. It is the time when resolutions are listed as we get tipsy and sing the old year goodbye.

Here is a better proposition.

How about that we take a moment to reflect, ponder and be grateful. We simply take too many things for granted – good health, good life and good people around you. And yet, we know that not everything is the same for everyone on the planet. We are the fortunate ones, actually.

Instead of saying, I want to be healthy, maybe you ARE healthy, instead of resolving to be better, maybe you ARE good enough. And if you are thinking of striving, you ARE already thriving.

When you believe you are enough you feel contented. You enjoy the inner peace. You refrain from desiring for more.

So, at least the New Year’s Day, take a time to be grateful. If you look around carefully you will find hundreds of things you can, or should, be grateful for.

If you find nothing, don’t forget that you are still alive. Not everyone made it through 2023.

(Take a moment to list down 10 things you are grateful for. Write them down on a piece of paper. Fold it and keep it in your purse. Later during the year, when you are down, go through the list. And smile 😊😊😊)

(Picture: On a boat off the coast of Bali, Indonesia. July 2023)