Did you see the truly spectacular firework display which dazzled crowds in London on New Years Eve?
250,000 revellers watched the extravaganza which included rockets shoo ting out from Big Ben. It cost £1.9m in total to stage and included 12,000 fireworks costing £274,000!!
There’s no doubt about it – somebody was thinking big when it came to this year’s celebrations and it really worked. We’ve set the precedent for what looks to be one of Britain’s best year’s yet. We’ve got the Olympics to look forward to and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee…and we had the whole world watching on Saturday night.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: “Our New Year fireworks were a brilliant start to a spectacular year. This is just the beginning.”But it got me thinking. Of those half a million people who were there to watch the display, for how many of them will 2012 really mark a new beginning?
What, exactly, were they celebrating? Most of them were ringing out the old and, they believe, erroneously, foolishly, that they were ringing in the new and it will somehow of its own volition be “better”.
We’re now 3 days into a New Year – but it won’t be a New Year at all for most people.
Those who are controlled by other people – and other peoples’ agendas – by accepted and unchallenged rules and norms and cant’s, by negative emotions like guilt, obligation or fear, by criticism or fear of it, by financial weakness, by whatever, well, theirs isn’t a New Year at all, is it? In that respect at least, the calendar lies.
YOU can do a lot better because you’ve been exposed to a lot more; you possess knowledge and skill, awareness of opportunity, almost certainly some financial strength and other resources.
Don’t squander it by surrendering control. CONTROL is both goal and means of achieving goals. Used properly it will ensure that your year is genuinely better than any you’ve had before…
