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My 2020 New Year’s Resolution …And One For You Too.

My 2020 New Year’s Resolution …And One For You Too.


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COPYRIGHT 2020, ONWORDS & UPWORDS, JIM MURRAY, PROP.I have no idea what day it is. All holidays feel like Sunday to me. So let’s call it Sunday. It must be Sunday because there’s lots of football on today. But wait. This is not the pros, it’s a the kids. Forget what I said about Sunday.

What I know for sure it’s that it’s New Year’s Day 2020. I’m not sure what that means although a lot of people out there like to use the start of the year as kind of a clean slate.

They tell themselves this is gonna be a great year. This is gonna be the year I’m gonna lose enough weight to get into that pair of pants that’s been hanging in my closet, just waiting for me since the 1990s. This is the year I’m gonna really start to jump on it and get some business going. This is the year I’m gonna (fill in the blank).

Yeah, we all feel pretty much the same way on New Year’s Day. For a lot of us this thoughtfulness is direct attributable to the astonishing amount of booze we consumed the night before. Because with the kind of hangovers many of us have, thinking is one of the few activities that doesn’t make us feel like we’re gonna barf.

Not me by that way. I quit drinking in the 80s.

I guess it’s a good thing to make some resolutions. But it’s also a smart thing to make them easy to manage. Otherwise you end up in December feeling like a total loser because you didn’t keep one of them.

I have beat that resolution thing over the past several years by simply resolving to stay alive. There are no further stipulations to or qualifications for that resolution. Just stay alive. Don’t stop breathing for any reason.

This has the distinct advantage of being something that you would try like hell to do anyway, and if you break it, well there’s no guilt because you’re dead.

My New Years are a long history of resolutions that I never kept and only a precious few that I did keep.

Some of them were just stupid and pretty much done in a drunken New Year’s eve stupor. Others were overly ambitious and qualified by “Wouldn’t it be nice if I could….”

But as I grew older, and moved beyond the need to get out there and bop till I dropped on New Year’s eve, I have really become more of a lurker. Last night I came down to the basement where Heather was and started flipping around the channels to all the different New Year’s Eve celebrations going on, including some that had already happened over in Europe and points farther east.

There was lots of celebration and revelry. But this year, maybe more than any other, I kind of felt that the people celebrating, so raucously and publicly, were really just using the occasion to escape from the reality that the world is not in such great shape at the moment.

I won’t get heavy into that because everybody knows what I mean.

But nonetheless, my thoughts were with the future. In fact, just before I went downstairs, I saw a news article about something called an Earthshot Prize started by Britain’s Prince William, as a way to encourage development and provide exposure for ideas that can really benefit the world regarding climate change.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/12/31/Prince-William-launches-Earthshot-Prize-to-help-speed-climate-solutions/9071577810009/

It’s a sad statement on all of us that things like this have to be created in the first place, because the world seems to be steadily moving towards a dire state.

But at the same time it made me happy, because maybe this would be the linchpin for a myriad of ideas like this around the world, and maybe, if we play our cards right, and all decide to work together, we can get things back on track.

But it’s going to be uphill work for everyone, especially in the political climate that seems to be more about division and exclusion…and so I would suggest a universal resolution in several simple worlds….Resolve To Be Part Of The Solution.

I’m currently putting together a list of things that people can do on a grass roots level to keep that resolution. So stay tuned. I’m not finished. In fact I’m only getting started.


080153a2.jpgJim Murray is an experienced op/ed, business and entertainment review blogger, copywriter and art director. He has run his own creative consulting business since 1989 after a 20 year career major Canadian & international advertising agencies in Toronto. He now lives with his wife Heather on the Niagara peninsula, and creates communications for businesses working to make a positive difference in the world.

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Jim Murray

4 years ago #5

#4
Always. John Rylance

John Rylance

4 years ago #4

I fully embrace the part of the solution. Try to remember that there are no right or wrong answers to a problem, just some that are better than others. Therefore be prepared to adjust your solution if a "better" one comes along. 

Debesh Choudhury

4 years ago #3

Everyday is same, only the numbers are in the date. Let's enjoy everyday along with the future days of the new decade. Jim Murray Happy New Year 2020.

Bill Stankiewicz

4 years ago #2

To Jim, Jerry and all the folks here on beBee community, my #contacts and #followers, I wish you and your families the very best in 2020.

Jerry Fletcher

4 years ago #1

Jim, Agree with you in principle. Unfortunately the linkages in the little grey cells immediately leaped to, "If you are not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." And so it goes.

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