Happ(I) 2011

Many of you would be familiar with this note, as I extended my wishes on new year eve. with this same note.

Just to reiterate and polish my mind on the moral being mentioned at the end of this note. Hopefully this will remain in my mind for long.

If I draw an objective of this New Year then it’s not that I should have a new year. It is that I should have a new soul and a new nose; a new backbone, a new feet, new ears and new eyes. Unless I made New Year resolutions, I would make no resolutions at all. Unless I start afresh about things, I will certainly do nothing effective- Wishing you a Happy New Year ‘2011.

As my thought paused in the pace of universe, just to wonder what else should be done to make 2011 more enjoyable, fruitful than ever. Carrying this thought since X-mas eve. My mind sparked with an idea to drive an inspiration from my past. So keeping the spirit alive of exchanging new year wishes with your loved ones, friends, and peers. I am sharing a tiny droplet of my past (shared by my old friend), which reminded me that life is all about inches. Taking and when combined all these small inches, they will make the difference between winning and losing! It's always a great idea to keep the front ground looking tidy. With this thought in mind, My brother and I had delivered a dump truck full of topsoil in order to fill in two large holes created when two old tree stumps were removed. The big mountain of earth sat there dumped 100 feet away from these holes waiting for us to begin the process. What had started out as a great idea soon soured when I realized that this big, big mound of earth was not going to move it and seemed overwhelming? All I could see, as I stood beside it with my shovel and wheelbarrow, was a dump truck full of topsoil; a mound of earth that looked more like a mini-mountain than a pile of earth that would be a simple Saturday afternoon chore. Oh my goodness, why did I ever think that this hole filling, lawn repair project, was something I would be able to tackle? After staring at this pile of topsoil for ten minutes wondering whether I should hire someone to do what I just couldn't see myself doing, an old Chinese proverb came to mind, ‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step’. The translation of this proverb to the task at hand immediately became obvious. I needed to take one shovel at a time until a wheelbarrow was full, and then keep filling one wheelbarrow at a time and dumping it until one hole was full then simply repeating the process until both holes were finished. You see, what I had to remind myself was that what might at first appear as an overwhelming task, or something I couldn't see myself doing, would be resolved by simply taking one step at a time, or one action at a time, over and over again. Projects, problems, or one's own need to learn a new job or career skill has the same application. Every difficult goal that, at first, may be viewed as an insuperable obstacle can be resolved when you implement a strategy that requires only one-step at a time. Each action taken moves you forward, continuous progress is seen, and the final goal is closer and closer until it is accomplished. Happy ‘2011.