For many of us in the Western World, today marks the beginning of a new year arbitrarily numbered 2013. Remember, that the naming of time is an artificial construct of our minds. Much more useful concepts of time come from children. They ask if something has already happened, will it happen later and....why can't it happen now!
So what do you do when the New Year is here? Why, the same as you did last year only, different. Because it is not the name of the new year that is important. It does not matter if you have a business and you "close the books". It does not matter if you live in a world where your personal goals are measured in terms of this arbitrary date. Again, we have constructed those things and we can choose to use them or to allow ourselves to become slaves to them.
But what does matter is what you do with the time you are given (old cliche, but true) and the fact that each and every now is a new now. A new start. A new chance to go in a different direction or to continue in the same direction. A chance for some current or eddy of energy to thaw and begin to flow, and for another, perhaps less urgent, energy to slow. Sometimes this slowing can be a time of rebuilding and sometimes it shows us where we never wanted to spend our time (and energy and money) in the first place.
So today, just like the New Year beginning when you finish reading this, and the New Year beginning at the highest point of the sun and the New Year beginning at the deepest dark of the night (and just like every other New Year starting after this) take the chance to start over. Try something new. Take a chance. Start a business, or an organization. Make a new friend. Play a practical joke (putting dead batteries back in the battery drawer is one of my favorites, but I wouldn't recommend it). The worst thing that can happen is that you start over again next year.
Whenever that is.
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