Welcome to a whole new decade! What the next ten years (and indeed the future in general) hold for any of us we’ll never be able to tell1, except for the inevitable death and taxes2, we can know only what we intend to do.
We equally know that intentions don’t quite stand up to the rigours of time; see only the lapse rate in gyms in February and March for confirmation.
The fantastic thing about Beginnings, though, is that they can take take place whenever you’d like. A resolution taken today – 1 January 2020 at the time of writing – is worth no more nor less than a resolution taken in a day, week, month or year.
The oft-dreaded onward march of Father Time is merely misunderstood. For each and every step he takes is another opportunity to Begin.
Our seconds feed into our minutes into our hours into our days into our months into our years into our decades and within each of those seconds comes the chance of a Beginning that wants only for the will to make it happen.
We should make our resolutions then not because of the pressure of the day, but because we want to Begin.
What we choose to start, of course, is something else besides.