A New Year For Self Discovery

It's amazing how much can change in a short time. One minute it is 2006, the next it is 2007. One minute you're happy, the next your world collapses around you. I have to say that 2007 is starting off as the worse year of this decade. But, as corny as it sounds, rather than seeing problems you should see opportunities to improve yourself. I starting working on some serious problems in my life this year... emotionally, spiritually, physically, and mentally (God, I sound like a real wreck). One of the books I am reading has me do something that Pookie had been trying to tell me, but with my anti-Oprah mentality I greatly resisted. What was that little nugget of wisdom that might help me? It is this... create a list of things you want. Now this is part of cognative behavior modification, but the idea is the same. In this "course" you create a one year list and a five year list of things you want to accomplish. Not just cream-puff stuff either, but real goals that you have to strive for. Pookie has a life list. I'm not that far yet (shoot, lately seeing tomorrow is a major accomplishment), but putting things within a one and five year framework seems reasonable to me. Why do this? Two things I have recently learned thus far:

I have been drifting through life. I have been fortunate getting this far, but to be perfectly honest I never planned it. Goals help give me some focus. I have tried to hit several areas of living, so hopefully when this period is over I will be a more fulfilled person.

Not only have I drifted through life, but I have not really taken the time to examine this life I have been given. I've taken people and events for granted. This would have greatly injured Socrates who said "The unexamined life is not worth living". Putting down goals helps me to examine my life and where it is going, where I want it to be, and hopefully map out a way to get there.

So, if you are the praying type, please pray for me as well as those around me whom I have hurt due to my thoughtlessness, my inattention to the effects the waves of my own life have on those around me. Hopefully I will have something better to report later.