The new year brings new hope, new resolve and new reflection for most people in our society. What’s particularly interesting is that the pomp and circumstance surrounding the modern holiday season is an easy distraction to the critical meaning of the The New Year. In ages past this celebration meant rebirth under the blanket of light from the first full moon. It was an indication that Spring had arrived and crops would be farmed to make good on prosperous ambitions.

Today of course, Western society ushers in the new calendar year. Resolutions are centered around self acknowledgments and challenges rarely critical to the survival of greater man but certainly pressing to ourselves. None of us seem to be immune to fleeting, perhaps lasting, thoughts of leaving a job, going back to school or quitting an addictive or harmful habit. So use your window of opportunity, which for most people is a good four weeks, to act and maintain your resolution(s). Perhaps a resolution can be to not wait until December 31st to do some soul searching and promise making to the one person who can truly read your mind - that of course is YOU!