It is the beginning of 2021, a new year, a new chapter of life. I wish you a very happy New Year and lots of thanks and gratitude for all your support over the years. Waking up each day this week I cannot believe it has been 3 years since I started my blog journey and there have been many moments, I have had doubts about continuing to write and share my views, but then one of you sends me a note of encouragement and this has been the true fuel to my journey, so I am very grateful at many levels. Now it is time to create goals, make resolutions, make vision boards, and get charged up for an exciting 2021 ahead.

During the beginning of the new year, people start by writing resolutions or by creating vision boards. I have always created new year resolutions but as I was thinking about the past couple of years, I figured out that I have never successfully kept them for the entire year. This topic began to intrigue me, so I started to check the internet to see if other people have the same challenges I have. When I did some research, I found out that only 50% of the population in America make new year’s resolutions. As I dived further, I found out that out of the 50% only 50% keep their resolution for 6 months and only 16% percent of that keep their resolutions for the entire year. That makes it only 8% of the people who write resolutions that embrace their resolutions throughout the year.

I began to wonder why 8% of the people who make resolutions keep them for the entire year. Before I began to think about the entire year and overwhelm myself, I started by looking at the past couple of days that I have been through. While we make new year’s resolutions, it is also winter break, and with that comes laziness and staying up late. In the end, we say to ourselves we will do it tomorrow, and before you know it a week has already gone by. Looking back at it I felt like I was a groundhog during Groundhog Day where each day was a repetition of yesterday. It was a moment of realization, where I observed that what we did yesterday, we will do today and what we do today, we will do tomorrow.

This reminded me of something Rajen uncle had once said that today is a repetition of yesterday. Now when I think back at this it all makes sense. He was referring to the fact that if we make no effort to change our behavior, take the learnings of life, or make a conscious effort to better understanding the true state of the mind, then our actions will be the same when the same event comes to meet us, we will react the same way, therefore our action today is going to be the same of the past or even just yesterday.

Going back to my learnings of the past couple of days I have learned that to change what is going to happen in the future we must be able to change the past. Though it may sound confusing and a bit unusual, it is a skill that takes the practice of reflection. Now when we look at reflection we mostly reflect on our good or happy events, though the secret ingredients always lie in the unsaid truth, the things we do not want to talk about, or the things we do not want to reflect upon, which are events during which we have may not be successful on or did not thrive on. So now before we look at changing our future ahead, we first must put as much effort in trying to correct our past. So, reflection is the process of correcting our past and reflecting light on the past. Reflection is not just thinking about the past but reflecting which is the reflection of light, you throw light on something and it reflects back, like a mirror. You put yourself in a mirror, so you put a situation to that event that occurred in the past and you throw light on it now. Finally, you now get a reflection of a changed event and that is reflection.

I think this light we throw on the past is called consciousness and we must consciously correct our past to change our future, but I need to check on this further with Rajen uncle. Just sharing my experience over the past few days. I surely have a lot to learn but more than learning I surely feel I need to practice and master the technique of reflection.

So, as I put efforts towards not only a projection of what I would like to achieve in 2021. This week has been the beginning of reflection where my past is my teacher. Much to learn from 2020, such as how the new education system adapted to me, what could I have done better, and what could have been done differently. With that today on a new year while I set the goals of my future projections, we celebrate the learnings through the reflection of the past.

Once again, wishing everyone a very happy New Year and thank you once again for your continued support. This New Year I am planning to post regularly on my social channels do new things, and I would love to make it interactive with your participation. So please join me on my social channels and please do like, comment, and share.