During the Holiday Season - we have a chance to reflect on how we have spent the last year. Perhaps, as I once again review this years events, the full history of the past that has brought us to where we are today - with the good fortune to see the end of 2011, yet another beginning in 2012.
When we consider how we've come to these places in our lives - many of the challenges we have faced, always rests with me as a wonderful way to better understand who I have become, and too, who I have yet to become. Certainly, we can't always find compassion in our hearts as much as we should. Understanding the "other persons'" point of view can be difficult at the best of times. Suffice it to say that so long as we try to see things from anothers perspective, we are just that much stronger, open, as we grow, as a person inside ourselves.
Things change. Change is the inevitable tide that carries us forward. So, what will I change as this year closes and another opens? That is the reflection time I refer to - the truth is always available.
This is the time for contemplation. January is the time for commitment. There is never a rush to reflect on what we might do better - in due course the answers seem to emerge. As I sit here now, watching the storms on the beach - the waves crash with an angry froth. I can only brave for a moment the torrent, on my board, in my wet suit. I find myself walking on sand rather than snow. By this chilly northern Pacific ocean I can somehow see the worlds flows more clearly. The fridged waters clear scattered thoughts. The challenge to paddle and catch a wave, outside the confluence of the rip-tides and the beach, somehow seems the perfect analogy to business, life, balance. The crash of waves changes, but does not cease.
The inevitable rush of views in the world that collide to deliver, like the ocean, an energy to propel us. The skill to paddle beyond the rough waters and to surf down the face of a wave is something that is never "easy". But, with practice, like in any practice in life, we can do it.
So as the New Year approaches I'll think about those waves yet to catch in business, in life. Beyond those challenges set upon the shore - with every challenge there is the enduring nature of human spirit that lets us know we are alive. We are able to face even the most difficult of circumstance. There is always another wave to find beyond those who would strive to keep us down, in torment of the rough weather. There is always a new wave to ride beyond those who would hold us back for their own egoic satisfaction. No matter the storm, there is another wave to discover and ride.
Happy Holidays - Merry Christmas ! Ride the wave - enjoy every minute. The crush is an indicator of the "break" we can alwasy find to ride.
Please visit our Santa Bizabacus Space and share your Christmas Wish with the World !
Best for 2012 - may you find your wave to ride with the thrill of success well deserved .... Tim
PS: Today I'm launching the Frank T. Vasko Foundation in memory of my Dad who passed away five years ago this week. Frank loved his family, fishing, nature - please visit the Sacred Waters Bizabacus Space and help preserve our natural environment by supporting the Sacred Head Waters project for generations to come.
