Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
Dependent on the source you use, anywhere from 80% to 92% of New Year’s Resolutions fail by February. Does it really make sense to wait an entire year to reset, renew, and establish new targets? Does it really make sense to base your personal improvement targets based on a calendar created by Julius Caesar based on the the Roman God Janus and eventually widely accepted and named after Pope Gregory XIII?
Don’t get me wrong. It makes sense to have a universal “Civic” calendar for consistency in a global economy but that doesn’t mean your personal life needs to revolve around this arbitrary day. You can find a New Year’s Day from various cultures in almost every month of the Gregorian Year so don’t limit your #Joysetting to just January 1st. Here is the rest of the quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. I think it summarizes this thought perfectly.
Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Poems and Translations
Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year in everyday and every new dawn.
