It’s New Year’s Day and Dad and the boys are watching the game while Grandma knits on the porch and Mom is showing the daughter the secrets of the kitchen. The daughter notices that Mom cuts the ends off the ham before putting it in the oven and asks, "Why do you cut the ends off the ham?" Mom explains that was the way she has always prepared ham and that was the way her Mom taught her. If she wants to know why, go ask Grandma. So she does. Grandma replies that she really doesn’t know. That was how she was taught by her Mom. So they all gather around the phone and placed a call to the old country to wish Great-Grandma a happy New Year and ask her why do they cut the ends off the ham? Great-Grandma answers that the reason she cut the ends off was that her oven was too small and that was the only way the ham would fit.

" Zig Ziglar"

It has been said that 93% of our thoughts today are the exact same thoughts that we had yesterday. With that statistic in mind, how can we create next year different from this year?

Well, I think we can. However, we cannot operate with the same way of thinking we operated with last year if we want to create something different this year. Notice that I said create, not change. It is my belief that change is no more than taking the same thing we had before and manipulating it into something different for the future, because we are still starting with the same thing we had before. Albert Einstein once said, "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

In order to create a new year, we need to reinvent ourselves into something outrageous and bold. Helen Keller once asked a group, "What is worse than not having sight?" The group mumbled for a while and came up with many other physical handicaps. But Helen answered her own question like this,

"Having sight without a vision."

Now, my questions to you as students and readers are: What is your vision for tomorrow? Are you committed to stay the same, make a change, or create a new you?

I truly believe that everyone is committed to something. Most people are committed to staying the same, defending what they think is right. Others are committed to pretending to make new commitments and never following through, while a small percentage of people are committed to actually making a positive change in their lives. Which group do you belong to?

 

"There is close connection between getting up in the world and getting up in the morning..."

 

 

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