New Year & Change

The New Year cycle comes with a lot of expectation of renewed visions and hope, which is the underlying reasoning why most of us make New Year’s resolutions. We make proclamations to start new regimes, healthier lifestyles and some of us succeed with discipline but as the routine of life kicks in it is hard to foster change to bring about the desired results. Life spins an invisible web and has its own effects. So how does one navigate around individual desires of change?

We are constantly bombarded by societal pressures, and so we are constantly undergoing imposed changes, which include governmental, political legal, financial/economic, and overall systemic change which affects our living and living standards.  These systems are not necessarily organic and are not natural in many ways and as one tries to navigate around the continuous bombardment of worldly needs and wants, we equate it all to ourselves as individuals. It is a constant balancing act.

So how does one navigate imposed societal change versus individual change?  The truth of the matter is that temporary fixes and superficial adjustments do not bring about real transformation, and most of us do not actually understand true transformation, until the effect actually occurs. We do not really change our core individual nature, and our personality. Again, change is mainly superficial. Unfortunately and too often drastic change occurs with ill fortune and health, and other circumstances which gives us actual cause to review our perspective. Unforeseen changes can and may present a real opportunity to change for the better or in other ways present a challenge or struggle to maintain our balance.

 It’s odd that we live in times when everyone casually throws out the concept of the “balanced work” life.  What is your balance? The tipping point of all change is the quest for meaning, and though this may seem esoteric, it is the crux of the matter. We are all searching for meaning and our purpose.