So many of us find new beginnings exciting. Others find them scary. What possibilities are ahead for you in 2010?  What ones will come and what ones will you create? So, how are you going to greet the New Year?

Remember the all consuming fear of Y2K of  10 years ago?  People were “what-if-ing” everywhere.

All bells and whistles would stop. Computers would crash, unable to calculate the changes. Even I  went out and bought a wind up radio  just in case all the air waves got jumbled and I would be cut loose from the rest of the world. I also know someone who took $10K out of the bank and kept it stashed in his house, for fear the banks would seize up. So many greeted that turn of the millennium with dread. It was possibility thinking from the dark side.

But, there were others who greeted it with glee.  They were the ones who saw  possibilities from the other side, the brighter one: opportunities. Yes, those in IT were the ones with the smiles on their faces, true, but others too were open to the notion of possibilities, unbridled, perhaps.

So, let’s not make resolutions for this year but instead, gear up our possibility thinking, from the bright side. I wonder if this will be the year that you finally get your finances in order? Will it be the year that you decide that you have great value and will begin to think about new positions or partnerships? Will 2010 be the year that you finally get that networking list into action and make rich connections?  Are you going to become more proactive and finally say to  yourself, “I can, “ as compared to “It’s impossible?”

I have a friend who hates new things. She stays put. She knows two restaurants and those are the ones that make her feel comfortable; everyone knows her there and she is always assured of good service and attention.  Nice, cozy and predictable. She does not like to stray from her comfort zone.

While that is fine for dining, she also has that pattern in her professional life. She has remained in a job that is incredibly wrong for her, as she is bored to tears and has moved way beyond her job description.  But the fear of changing is greater than the actual daily stomach distress that she has been treated for for over two years, the short temper she has developed with her family and the diminishing self esteem that is continually ebbing away.

How will she look at 2010? Will  it be a time that she decides “yes”  to taking better care of herself?  Could it be a time when she says “no” to fear that is only a thought and not a fact? Will it be a time when she begins to remember her value and her values so that others begin to see them too? Will she ring in the New Year with bright possibility thinking? I sure hope so and I think she can. Do you think you can? I sure hope so.

©2010 Judy Rosemarin

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