This new year is not NEW, until your perspective is NEW

After every 356 days a new year comes.

I've lived 21 times of such '356 days'.
(Sad to say, my ORD is one and a half '356 days' more, haha)


After 21 times of such experiences, i came to a conclusion.
That this year is not NEW, until your perspective is reNEWed!



What i mean is that unless we change, the new year will be exactly like the year that just passed.
Unless we change in our actions and our thinking.


Because you will either decide to change, or Change will force you to decide.


Life, is all about your perspective.
If you've myopia, you won't be able to see things clearly.
If you're wearing sunglasses, everything will look darker and you might not see certain things that are dark.
If you're wearing rainbow colour glasses, everything will look gay to you, even a fierce black cat staring at you with its fierce green eyes will look like a colourful teletubby kitten.

Its how you see things that influence your decisions!!


Lets say we do an experiment, we put an empty glass on a table, fill it half with water and ask 4 very different people what do they see.
The 1st person, an optimist, will say he sees a half full glass.
The 2nd person, a pessimist, will say he sees a half empty glass.
The 3rd person, a SUPER optimist, will say that he sees a half full glass which will be filled to the brim soon.
Because of his positive view of the glass, not only does he see the half full glass, but he sees himself initiating to fill the glass further.
A positive hopeful perspective will stir up initiatives. (its the hopeful people that initiate new things!)
FINALLY, the 4TH PERSON. He walks in to the room, sees the glass, and says: "I see a half empty glass, which will be fully empty soon because the water is going to evaporate."

There are people like that, who sit there, rot, and hope that everything else will rot too. I beseech you, please don't be like the fourth guy, haha..


We need to change in the way we see things.
Our mind and beliefs are like an auto-pilot system that guides our behaviour.
If you realised that your auto-pilot is leading you to the wrong destination or direction, then change it now!



Its either you lead the change, or the change will lead and drag you along time.
The former gives joy, while the latter pain.


Take a look at my previous post again.
Where i mentioned "this is how my 2009 will look like" and i left a big empty space there.
Some of you might see it as an empty space.
Filled with nothingness. Nothing to hope for, nothing to blog about.

But in my perspective, it was the most beautiful thing i could write about how my 2009 will be like.
It is an empty canvas.
We all appreciate well written works.
We would value a canvas filled with something great.
And when we see an empty canvas, it'll be of no value whatsover, because its just empty.


But an empty canvas also mean something.
Its gives you a space where you can hope for something new, where you can pen down something new.
And that, in my perspective, is better than anything else; having a NEW story.


It is now exactly a month in the new year.
How is your new year coming along?
Are you still the same as what you were last year?
Are you still trapped in bad habits that hinder you from getting a breakthrough in life, from moving up to a new level of fruitfulness?
How was January?

If you realised that you're still in the same path, it is not to late to make some changes, there is still 11 more months.

Because Life changes with time.

But the quality of your life doesn't.

It changes, with the change of your mindsets, your beliefs and your perspectives.

Because the New year is not yet new, until your perspective is renewed.
So decide to make it new today.



This post definitely has value in view of time & eternity.
Because having to view in eternity, is in itself a topic about perspective.

Rickson's 2009.

2008 has been such a hectic year for me.
I can't help but imagine how my 2009 will be like.

And this, is how my 2009 will look like:

























































Yup, i'm not kidding.
That's how 2009 looks like to me now.
& that's how i believe it'll be...