03 Jan Year 2021 is a cup! What will you fill it with?
“The trick of the future is that it’s empty, a cup before you pour the water.”
~ Maggie Smith, Future, Good Bones
‘Tis the season! As we close this year, we look up with hope that year 2021 will be different from 2020 in a positive and promising way.
2020 has been everybody’s pet peeve. Social media has long been abuzz with posts reflecting the angst of 2020. This has gone long enough and now it is time to refresh and reboot.
Says Physicist Carlo Rovelli in The Order of Time: Thoughts, (like time) for instance unfold from the past to the future, not vice versa. So goes it with time.
Outside of circumstances that we can’t control, our words determine our world. The world we live in is the fruit of the words we have proclaimed over it. If the world we have called forth is replete with fear, anxiety and despair, the words we have proclaimed over it call for serious reflection. So, the big secret to changing our world is changing our words about it.
Would like to end with a quote from a book, Atomic Habits, by James Clear that impacted me this year.
‘If you keep casting the same votes you have always cast, you are going to get the same results you have always had. If nothing changes, nothing is going to change.’
This is a simple two-step process:
1. Decide the type of person you want to be.
2. Prove it to yourself with small wins.”
The last stanza of Maggie Smith’s Future unfurls a poetic finale to this perspective:
‘Every minute carries you forward, conveys you into a space you fill.
I mean, the future will be full of you.
It’s one step beyond the step you’re taking now,
what you’ll say next, until you say it.’
On behalf of TeamTATE, I wish you and your families a fulfilling 2021.
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