That New You and Our Own Views

👋It is now January Sixteenth - almost midway into the month.  Remember when we heard those scripts about "new year, new you?" Well guess what?  Each day we wake up is a new day and a new you.  

I begin today a new me.  Yesterday was a better day than the other day before that.  Was it perfect? No day is perfect.  We can only do the best we can in this moment to do better than our "yester-self." We have twelve chances to always be "new" and "reborn" with every new month.  Why should a new year look so empowering? For me, February First and June First have more transitional change than January First.  Even our birthday has more of a "new year, new you" interpretation than January First.  Why? Because for our own birthday it really IS a new year for our personal journey and life.  

Truth be told, if we really want to make January First an empowering new day of a new year, we need to prepare for it on December First from that prior year.  December is the LAST month of the year so for each day in that last month we need to create a plan that will prepare our mindset that January is that new year to make ourselves new again.  That means we need to shed our preconceived ideas about New Year's Eve. The trite notion is to stay awake past the time we typically go to bed (knowing we needs to have a certain amount of hours to sleep) and people consume alcohol during that time. So the next morning of that alleged new year we begin by sleeping late or hung over. 

There are circumstances in our environment and in other aspects of the world and media that makes things not so good, too.  We cannot change anything external in our world, but we CAN change how we cope and react to it.

We will be  triggered and we will be quickly angered by an opposing force or an opposing viewpoint.  We know we cannot ever change people's opinions so how can we deal with their opposing view when they put it in our faces?

Show them we are not easy to react because what we know is to be true and what they believe is what they know is true.  

It has to come into fruition that political views should not be so open as they had been in the last four years.  

We reacted to political wins and losses like we have done in sports games. Politics and politicians are NOT sports games/teams.

The person we plan to vote for should not be open for discussion because voting has always been a private thing that is between ourselves and our ballot. 

The politician we vote for is not a football team like the Chicago Bears or Seattle Seahawks.  

Our political decisions should not become part of our personality and hobbies.