In thinking about our culture, we can easily be distracted in many directions by the noise and various opinions which swirl around each of us every moment of the day. It is time to pause and look deeply at what makes up a positive, productive culture and then have the confidence to step forward and take action to move in our best contributing direction.
Our society embraces the numerous holidays of every calendar year. Valentines’ day is no exception. Since before the Christmas/New Year’s festivities, Valentines cards, flowers, candies and well wishes have filled the stores and windows. As we recover from the activities of Valentine’s Day, let us take to heart the truest meaning of loving each other and all of humanity.
Although February is the shortest month on the calendar, it has overwhelming opportunity. We have all either dropped our new year’s resolution by now or we are forming positive habits which has greatness in some form or fashion attached to them. It is the second month of the year when the holidays are completely behind us and it is all about getting down to business. Let your creative juices flow and take yourself to the next Big Dream!
A very interesting part of our culture are the traditions brought forward from our diverse past. These flavorings from the amalgamation of many cultures gives our society its uniqueness. It is these points of bringing forward our history that allows us to be a more full and complete community. Rather than dismiss the past we need to embrace it both for what is good and not so good. Learn from both so that we can improve on our culture moving forward.
Holding oneself to high standards is not only important for your own growth and achievement but it invites relationships to you which want to help you get where you are going. The path on your journey if then filled not with fear and challenges but with energy and people who are all growing with you.
As we move into a new year of better outcomes, take some time to set in motion a governing approach which focuses on building yourself up to the levels necessary to achieve greatness rather than dragging others down to a level below you, so you create the impression of growth at another’s expense. It may appear and even feel like growth but in the end, it is lowering yourself to a new low.
Division happens when two elements separate for any number of reasons. When this happens at the atomic level, heat is created to such a degree it can turn water into steam to generate electricity. This same level of energy also happens in our society when two factions divide on a subject matter and cause much heated dialogue. Such heat is so destructive that in this case it fractures the very fabric of communities, neighbors, families.
The New Year is here, and it is a time of fresh starts. Not only in the things we want to do differently but also the environments we need to immerse ourselves into to provide the necessary and ideal elements to help each of us grow and develop our full and complete potential. To make time for the new things we start we must also stop doing things which no longer contribute to the direction of the path we are choosing to pursue.
As we draw to a close 2021 and look into what the future of 2022 will bring, we pause and set resolutions to be, to come, to stop and to start. In a day when there is much distraction and noise, be gladdened by this annual cultural event of looking forward without restriction and setting in motion a new you.
Over 2000 years ago a spiritual event captured the people of the time and has been a consistent remembrance through faith and belief that around the globe a universal time of Christmas is celebrated. In many different cultures and in many ways this event of the birth of a savior is woven into the culture. It may have lost some of its original beliefs but is one of the few global celebrations which crisscross the cultures of this planet.