It’s a brand new year once again. The much awaited 2012 has come. Amid the mixed feeling for the coming of New Year and the scare of the end of time, still majority of us are looking forward for a positive start on 2012. I am one of those hopeful for this year. Although gone are the days when I list down my New Year’s Resolution, still I learned to start the brand new year with a new style – no resolutions (oows). I know some of us will “philosophically” utter that they don’t even care to create NYR because they keep on failing to do their resolutions. I watched in the news and heard a specialist saying that in order to maintain and practice a new year’s resolution one must have a high level of discipline.

Ah discipline. Discipline was such a lonely word, a word that is so easy to say yet so hard to live by.

I admit I failed to have discipline in some sectors of my life. While I think of areas I feel like I lack discipline, I feel like this article will turn out as an admission of my shortcomings. When it comes to financial management, food selection, and healthy lifestyle, I know I need to improve on these areas of my life. Although I already inculcated in my mind the consciousness of doing what is right and what is good for me, still I don’t exert an extra mile to do them- all because I don’t have discipline.

It’s hard.

Good thing even if we failed to maintain a perfect level of discipline, we are given a chance to change or to be better. We are so lucky to live in a planet that revolves around the sun only in 365 days which gives an end and a new beginning of a year. New Year has a magnificent effect in our lives. I compared the coming of New Year as a restart button of our life. Like an immaculate white paper where we draw and splash colors on how our life would look like, we commit mistakes and errors in the process of creating our “masterpiece”. At some point we want to press Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, or throw away what we had started. We are eager to grab a new paper and remove in our memory that we made “silly” mistakes. This has been the scenario each year.

The first seconds, minutes and hours of the year are so fragile (this side up) and delicate to all of us. As much as possible we eradicate the possibility of committing mistakes for we believe that our whole year would be like that. We grab and attract positive and good vibes. The first morning of the year is so majestic. The rays of light from sunrise deliver positive energy as we wake up after a grand New Year celebration. Most of us even tweet or post in Facebook our wake-up experiences.

One of the remarkable and most commendable observations is we all become optimistic. I neither read any negative post nor whine in Facebook. Lahat positive!

At the start of the year, we indeed view life in a positive way. For sinners like me, we look forward for a clean slate in our scorecard of good deeds. For dreamers like me (again), we believe that our goals and targets for the year will turn out to be a reality. For working individuals (like me again), we tried as much as possible not to be late on the first day of work, thinking we will always be late throughout the year if we are late.

As we start this year, allow me to share with you instead of my New Year’s Resolution but my More and Less List:

May we become more grateful and less unthankful.

May we save and invest more and spend less for “short-lived” source of happiness.

May we practice eating more fruits and vegetable and less junk food and fast food…

more water and less soda…

more juice and milk and less coffee…

more travels and outdoor activities and less online life…

and more exercises and less “tambay”.

Lastly more inspiration and more love… nothing less.

Happy New Year everyone! Boom!

DB

PS:

Photo by: Arnel Vergara

Location: Burnham Park, Baguio City
Date Taken: 1.1.12 @ 7:44am
Exposure: 1/400sec @ f/8
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO: 200
Lens: Canon 50mm Mark II
Processed: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3.4