My City January 2022

MYAFTERTHOUGHT

“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes next year and forever.” Neil Gaiman

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They

Time to Start Anew BY PETER HINTERMAN

merely determine where you start.” Nido Qubein “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin.

As we leave 2021 behind and enter the New Year, many of us spend time re ecting on our past year and vowing to make changes in our lives. Maybe some of us want to spend more time with family, start the business we’ve always dreamed of, eat better and

Beginning makes the

conditions

perfect.”

be more active, etc. It isn’t something as simple as making a resolution; it’s a complete remodel of who we are, what we do and why we do it. As we open the day on January 1, we are ready to go.We make our lists, make

Alan Cohen

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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot

our plans. And, in a few months or so, most of us †nd ourselves right back in our regular routines – right back in the same rut we thought we left behind.

“Hope smiles from

the threshold of the year to come, whispering,

Make this year diˆerent. Start and stick to your plans. Fight for the will to make things happen and make 2022 the beginning of the happier, better you.

‘it will be happier’.”

Alfred Lord Tennyson

“New year – a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately, we write it. The choice is yours.” Alex Morritt

“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” Rainer Maria Rilke

Make 2022 the start of something amazing. HAPPY NEW YEAR ! ®

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