New Year's Resolutions

Most New Year’s resolutions are focused on ourselves. What we want to accomplish, what we need, what we want to do, what we need to fix. I suggest that this year you focus on what you can give.

Here are 4 things you can give every day to everyone you meet:

• Unconditional love (the gift of compassion, forgiveness, mercy, grace, love)
• Joy (the gift of fun and laughter)
• Power (the gift of faith and trust in others)
• Respect (fulfill the deep desire we all have to be recognized and accepted)

Incidentally giving these things to others has deep benefits to the giver. It helps you focus on the positive and remain flexible.  It makes us less judgmental and dismissive. It gets us out of the rut of negativity. 

I am not suggesting that these gifts are easy to give all the time. We will slip but we can come back to these intentions again and again.

These suggestions are from a short article by John J. Murphy. The whole article is worth reading.