DEAR READERS: Welcome to 2025. A New 12 months has arrived; the final one is safely behind us. As at all times, this New 12 months brings with it our hopes for a brand new starting.
At present presents a possibility to discard harmful outdated habits for wholesome new ones, and with that in thoughts, I’ll share Pricey Abby’s often-requested checklist of New 12 months’s Resolutions — which had been tailored by my late mom, Pauline Phillips, from the unique credo of Al-Anon:
JUST FOR TODAY: I’ll dwell by means of THIS DAY ONLY. I cannot brood about yesterday or obsess about tomorrow. I cannot set far-reaching objectives or attempt to overcome all of my issues directly. I do know that I can do one thing for twenty-four hours that might overwhelm me if I needed to stick with it for a lifetime.
JUST FOR TODAY: I’ll resolve to be pleased. I cannot dwell on ideas that depress me. If my thoughts fills with clouds, I’ll chase them away and fill it with sunshine.
JUST FOR TODAY: I’ll settle for what’s. I’ll face actuality. I’ll right these issues that I can right and settle for these I can not.
JUST FOR TODAY: I’ll enhance my thoughts. I’ll learn one thing that requires effort, thought and focus. I cannot be a psychological idler.
JUST FOR TODAY: I’ll make a aware effort to be agreeable. I might be type and courteous to those that cross my path, and I’ll not communicate in poor health of others. I’ll enhance my look, communicate softly and never interrupt when another person is speaking. Only for at present, I’ll chorus from enhancing anyone however myself.
JUST FOR TODAY: I’ll do one thing constructive to enhance my well being. If I’m a smoker, I’ll stop. And I’ll get off the sofa and take a brisk stroll, even when it’s solely across the block.
JUST FOR TODAY: I’ll collect the braveness to do what is correct and take accountability for my very own actions.
And now, Pricey Readers, permit me to share an merchandise that was despatched to me by L.J. Bhatia, a reader from New Delhi, India:
DEAR ABBY: This 12 months, no resolutions, just some pointers. The Holy Vedas say, “Man has subjected himself to 1000’s of self-inflicted bondages. Knowledge involves a person who lives based on the true everlasting legal guidelines of nature.”
The prayer of St. Francis (of which there are a number of variations) accommodates a robust message:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
The place there may be hatred, let me sow love;
The place there may be damage, pardon;
The place there may be doubt, religion;
The place there may be despair, hope;
The place there may be darkness, mild;
And the place there may be disappointment, pleasure.
O Divine Grasp,
Grant that I could not a lot search to be consoled as to console;
To be understood, as to know;
To be beloved, as to like;
For it’s in giving that we obtain,
It’s in pardoning that we’re pardoned,
And it’s in dying that we’re born to everlasting life.
And so, Pricey Readers, could 2025 deliver with it good well being, peace and pleasure to all of us. — LOVE, ABBY
Pricey Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, often known as Jeanne Phillips, and was based by her mom, Pauline Phillips. Contact Pricey Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Field 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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