Editorial
A new year means you have to remember to write 2025 on the date. (It used to be the middle of January before I started writing correct year on checks, now I don't write checks at all.) It's a chance to make changes you have been meaning to for a long time. It's a chance to start over and begin anew.
Though it really is just another day in the middle of the week. The change you wanted could have happened any day because everyday begins anew. We wake up to a fresh start and can decide what it will bring. We don't have to wait for the new year. So, since we're already a couple days in the year and probably already reneged on the resolution, it's still a new day anyway.
A new year does mean we get to start a new file for all things taxes. You get to see if your business or family budget ended in the positive or negative. It's a good time to actually do that budget you've been saying you would for a year now. File the old away and start a new file. During the upcoming cold snap, get in that closet and get rid of things you didn't (or couldn't) wear and clean out the old stuff and make room for what the new year brings. [You can take you old clothes to Second Chances on Main Street and give someone else a chance. Take the old let it become the new for someone else.] Sometimes we just need a new start. A new chance, a second chance, at getting it right. A new year is good reason to start doing it right, getting it better and improving it even more.
One of my favorite shows had a person deciding to get it right, doing it right and making it right. Though it was at his fortieth birthday, the time and choice to get it right can be for us the new year. In 1948, 1984 seemed a distance future and when 1984 came, 2025 was possibly the end of time. 2025 is here and we will most likely see 2035. The point is not the distance between dates but the accomplishments we make to it. The question is, as was in the show, what is 'it.' What is it that we need to be better, change, improve or do. What is it that will be for the new year.
It doesn't matter and may well be different for each one of us. It can be simple or challenging. It can be intense or calm. It can be exciting or frightening. Let it be this year.