Frontiers Friday #18. Five Tips for Your Development: Happy Kickoff to 2021 Edition
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Frontiers Friday #18 Dispatch: Kickoff to 2021 Edition
Last night on our way home from a new year's eve gathering at my sister's place, I told my 7-year-old that in about an hour it will be a new year. She said, "Papa, I don't understand. What's the big deal?"
I'm not sure, but given that nearly all of us are under the spell of the Gregorian calendar (more about the Calendar below), I think the start of a new year affords us a sort of collective fresh-start. Not so much as to make up some new year's resolution that's not going to stick, but to come up with an absolution from the last year's slips, blunders and mistakes, so that we can be free to adapt to the coming year and move according to the intentions of the heart.
Here's 5 things to think as we kickoff the new year
From My Desk (Full Circles Archives): Look Outside of Yourself
Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development Archives: The Pursuit of Excellence is not the Pursuit of Perfection.
Listen: 99% Invisible Podcast: The Calendar
Did you know that Kodak company adopted the 13-month calendar in 1924 and they continued to use it until 1989?
This podcast episode is a really interesting historical perspective of the evolution of our calendar system.
Web-Read: New Year Rituals for Families
Laura Markham's blog and her 2 books on parenting are probably my most frequently revisited materials on this topic (see her books: Peaceful Parents and Happy Siblings).
In this blogpost, Markham provides some simple ideas that you can do as a family as we usher in the new year. One example, take a casual family photo at the start of every year.
Words Worth Contemplating:
“Nobody is so poor that he/she has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich that he/she has nothing to receive”
~ Karol Józef Wojtyła, Pope John Paul II.
Reflect
New Year's Absolution: What do we need to personally release ourselves from the past year, so that we can be able to listen to life's call to adventure in the coming year?
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May lightness of play be within you with the weight of love and belonging in 2021.