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The New Calendar Year

It's so interesting to me all the symbolic things we use in our lives to help motivate ourselves to keep truckin' on.  Things from birthdays, holidays, holy days and astronomy, to the new year, the new moon, anniversaries.  These dates give us purpose.  They offer hope and motivation.  It's really a beautiful thing I think.  For many people though, I know, these dates offer nothing but the opposite.  By giving these dates such significance, these dates can often let us down.  If things don't go the way we expect them to, these symbolic moments either lose meaning, or motivate us to make the next one better.

The new year is the most universal time to reflect and make changes.  But really, it's just another day just like all the others right?  I guess it's all a matter of perspective.  These perspectives drive our lives.  Perception becomes reality and visa versa and so on and so forth.  

So the question I have is at what point do we say enough with it all, EVERYDAY is just as special or insignificant as the next?  Well, we don't.  Humans need change, the need the chase, they need the challenge.  We need our lazy time, ambitious time, fun time, work time. 

The choices we have are so powerful.  The choices we make with the opportunities we are given is our greatest power.  If you think about it, the invention of the calendar is the most powerful form of human conciousness and awareness that we have.  Now, each culture may celebrate a different new year day, but within those communities, thousands upon millions of people are sharing in the joy and celebration of the new year.  What does the new year mark?  The fact that the sun is still there and that the earth is still moving around it.  Meaning that we are still alive and chances are we can expect the same to happen over the next 365 days.  What a random number that is right?  But really, the new year's celebration has nothing to do with the astronomy anymore.  We have collectively made it the most powerful holiday, celebration or whatever term you may have for it. 

No matter how simple the reasons may be for what it is that is truely happening in the universe, it is we who decide how meaningful it is to our lives.  Each individual life is so unique that we can't possibly expect everyone around us to give the same value to the new year.  But really, just imagine what could happen if we all did?  Imagine if every 365 days, we were all able to put the past behind us and progress like never before.  It's really just a bad side effect to our gift of memory, but the past can really make or break it for you.  

Just the fact that we celebrate with such fervor the significance of these specific moments in time, we all must know deep down inside that it is only in this moment that we are truely alive and free. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The Master Key System

This text is free on the internet.  You should find it and download it and do it!  I'm working on it.  So far, week one #4 has got me stuck already.

"This is true because we must “be” before we can “do,” and we can “do” only to the

extent which we “are”, and what we “are” depends upon what we “think”." - Charles F. Haanel

This makes so much sense, but it makes you go a little crazy at the same time, right?!  Body and mind, brain and mind, brain and soul.  Each its own entity but completely useless without the other.  So, at some point we became what we are, which leads us to think about that.  Why are we we?  Why are you you?  Why am I me?  I remember contemplating this by the age of eight or so.  What it comes down to is, it just is what it is.  So things like existentialism come about because of the knowledge of things like this.  However understandable such belief system may be, that it exists in the depths of every human heart, it's completely counter productive and NOT true.  So how do we get past those feelings of, well, "it is what it is so why move forward with a feeling that I can change it?"  That my friend is called complacency and it leads to things like countries being rule by dictators.  It leads to things like war.  It leads to a great many terribly destructive human actions.  How does it do that?  Because we have refused to own our thoughts. 

Humanity as a whole decided at some point not to own itself.  Hmmm, contemplate that one!  Do you agree?  What I see and feel from those around me is just that.  Complacency and lack of ownership.  Makes you wanna curl up and let Jesus return doesn't it?! 

Next time I hope to write of the first true active thing that happens as a result of The Master Key System.

Just look at this picture.  Think about it.  Let it consume you a little...  Drown yourself in the possibility of a creator, a beautiful collective energy of love and power.