One Tick of the Clock

The profound implications of one tick of the clock just gave the whole world a fresh start.  We said "later haters" to 2011 and rejoiced at the freedom we feel of letting go of our failed expectations of ourselves and others that the moments on the clock in 2011 did not fulfill.  Now, here we are with a renewed vigor and the gyms are packed again, excel has had an increased use for new created schedules, and people walk around lighter, happier knowing they've got another chance to do it better.  Just one tick of the clock...

Perhaps what we have missed is that tick of the clock comes every day, every week and every month.  I understand that as a human race we gather with pomp and circumstance around the change of the New Year.  I love it too.  And somehow since everyone believes it, it must be true that I really have a new start.  Yet each night as we rest and the clock ticks to a new day the lack of celebration does nothing to stir my emotional belief that I got another chance to do it again.  Even though it is true, that I got the same new beginning each night, each week and each month, it just doesn't have the same affect on my psyche as the turn of the New Year.

And that is my point.  That balls dropping, sparkling effects, champagne toasting, and the one time a year we stay up past midnight is all worth it.  But it isn't what actually gave you the new start.  The new start simply came with one tick of the clock.

So if you've already failed at your new resolve at the New Year or failed to set any resolve at all.  There is another tick of the clock telling you it is a new day headed your way.  And if time hasn't given up on you, then neither has God. There is still something to do.  Don't let the emotion of the holiday rob you from making the real change you want in your own life today.

And this life tool, my friends, I need every day.  New starts are not banished to only the New Year.  They are specially designed into each new day with just one tick of the clock.