Not Your Typical New Years Article
While your feeds and inboxes are being flooded with articles about new years resolutions, take a quick moment to reflect on 2012.
Can you remember where you were in life at this time last year?
What has changed since then? How have you changed?
Chances are your world has shifted in ways that you never even considered when planning for 2012 a year ago. Perhaps those changes turned out to be even more fantastic than you could have imagined.
In that light, consider this rapturous truth when planning out your new year:
“We must let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell
I doubt the great Mr. Campbell would recommend dropping all of your resolutions and plans in favor of waiting. He would, however, encourage you to cultivate a sense of openness to what unfolds this year.
If something comes up that at first appears to be an obstacle, give it some time to transpire! If a caterpillar judged his metamorphosis by the first step – being locked up in a cocoon – he would never experience flight.
Embrace the mystery this year! Every happenstance occurence could turn into the reason why 2013 is going to be a magical year for you.
Here’s to you emerging from 2013 with wings :)




Marc said on 12.31.2012
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Those are my tips to you all to have a happy 2013 and achieve the resolutions and change you want to see happen! :D
Bryan Hellard said on 12.31.2012
I like it :) I don’t remember my 2012 resolutions, but I’m sure many of them never came true. Always stay adaptable!
KYANNE KID said on 01.01.2013
THANK YOU
Athens said on 01.01.2013
Nice article Jordan, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I was last year and you chose the perfect quote to end my circle of thoughts about my life not going as planned.
Happy New Year!
Nicolas said on 01.02.2013
Hi
Thats a bit unusual for a New Year’s blog post, so thanks a lot!!! Indeed things for me have gone completely different to what I had planned – I actually hadn’t planned any life resolutions! Which i do now.
N.
Tawnie Nesbitt said on 01.02.2013
This post really hit the spot. Subconsciously I believe I was yearning for some sort of affirmation that planning is not the only answer. As a senior this year all of my friends are applying to colleges, signing up for the military, cementing a job in the workforce etc… but I have not done a thing. My ambitions lean towards exploration; both of the self and the world we inhabit, but doubt and anxiety are becoming forces to be reckoned with as graduation draws nearer. That being said, the mantra of this post resonated quite well with me. So bring on the mystery of 2013 and the mystery of years and decades and centuries and eras and epochs and eons and eons to come!
Ideaman said on 01.02.2013
:)
Goglosh said on 01.02.2013
(: thanks jordan, I needed to hear that.
actually think every year about how I was last year at this -new year- moment. So I made my resolution and suddenly it all seemed to fade away in an absurd and stupid event. Anyway, I’ll just keep it up and see what happens.
trilliam said on 01.11.2013
Great post Jordan.
dave said on 03.06.2013
I think you area a lovely person =)
Esteban said on 04.13.2013
nice