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ONE PERSON WILL KNOW
Saturday Dec. 31, 2011
On weekend mornings I find I have time - perhaps my readers do too - to listen to some music. I choose pieces I like that connect, in some way, to my mood. I hope you enjoy these: Pointer Sisters I’m So Excited , Declan Galbraith I’d Love You To Want Me , John Lennon Imagine
If you invested in you a year ago, how would you have done?
Seriously, if you’d liquidated all your resources a year ago – invested them in you – how would you have fared?
Would that be the measure to best determine your worth, your value, your prospects?
OK, so maybe you didn’t do that.
Here we are.
Another year ending, new one beginning.
Are you prepared to bet on yourself this year, to invest all of yourself being a successful personal enterprise, a venture for good, an adventure for fun, sunburst of extraordinary fireworks?
Too much to think about?
Just for today – talk about this year that is no more, over, done.
Closure.
Completion – ending, sealing away, past-perfect tense of DONENESS.
Over, through, finito, THE END.
Done with that, done with 2011.
Over, finally!
... or missed?
Missed opportunities, missed steps, missed the feeling of realizing the expectations we had a year ago. While we build a portfolio of memories that fortify us against cold nights and harsh truths, there is little reverence for the year that was.
I remember rainy spring days, hot summer afternoons . . . and hotter nights, sweet events, tremendous achievements, joys and toys and kids, learning, touching and being touched by exquisite experiences – but these memories are collages of moments in time. I don’t recall a good year, or a whole year as what it was like, yet each year at this time we seem no naval-gaze at what the next year might be like.
If we are concerned about business and investments, prognosticators advise to grab your wallet with both hands, and hang on! Others predict, in this spot on the globe particularly, continued unbridled prosperity.
Neither will be right. Neither will be completely wrong.
If we focus, less on the collective we, and more on the singular – WE can gauge the value of our own stock, can’t we? Will we rise or fall in someone’s eyes, among our peers, our competitors, our family, our community – as compared to who we were last year, how we did last year, how we performed last year?
What have you done for me lately? thoughts could be turned to what have I done for others lately?
If you think you can make a major difference in the world, or in your own, in 2012 . . . then take a peek in the rear-view, and ask what difference you made in 2011.
I’m not weary my cynic’s hat today – but realizing that we can all make sweet, ambitious and altruistic statements at this time of year, about how we will be more charitable, better citizens, better parents, better friends, better employees, better ________, better ______.
But will we?
Will anyone know, or notice, if we don’t?
Not likely.
Oh, correction, one person will know.
Mark Kolke
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column written/ published from Calgary - morning walk: -4 C/ 24 F, clear, brisk little breeze, we walked fast, to the top of the big hill and sauntered back down. Gusta was particularly disobedient in the stop-go-come this way department. I’ll work on that behaviour next year!
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MISSION POSSIBLE
My friend, James Beesley, forwards your wonderful ‘warrior wisdom’ pieces daily – can you plse put me on your outbound list? You are an amazing writer and gift to many (I sent them around the globe)…next time you are in Vancouver, perhaps you could ping me and we could get together for a coffee. I have a few ideas to banter with you – but most of all, wanted to thank you and wish you a HNY…. In spirit, RM, Vancouver, BC
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