We are entering what for most of us is a well deserved rest. The festive season seems to put everybody in a mood of giving and gratitude. We give to those who are less fortunate because it is Christmas.

We are in a spirit of happiness. We shop and buy gifts for our family and friends, we leave to go on holiday. It is the time of year that people look forward to the most, but it is also that time of the year that we need to look back on the things we have done and take stock of our lives.

We look back on the things we have done and then set goals and new year’s resolutions to change the things we are not happy with. But how many of us actually see these things through. I take myself as an example. Every year I promise myself that this is the year that I will be top fit and achieve all my goals. O man and I start off with a bang. I exercise and cycle and before I know it I am back into my old routine of not having enough time to achieve these goals.

We walk the same path over and over again, and always end up at the same place. I cannot help but to ask myself why? Why at the end of the year am I all for it and when push comes to shove I end up where I started. We get frustrated with our current situations and stagnate in our lives. We live another year to survive and end up setting goals for the next year just to forget about them as the year progresses.

The only way to change the world is to change ourselves. I remember when I was younger it felt like everybody blamed me for the problems in their lives like it was my fault things happened and then I realised with a great shock that I was doing exactly the same thing. I use to blame other people for my problems, it was their fault that I rolled my car that I couldn’t cope at work and my relationships with my loved ones was on the rocks so to speak. It was only when I realised that the only person I can change is myself that things started to go my way.

We all so badly want the people and the circumstances in our lives to change and we get frustrated if they don’t. It is because the key to change is within us. We must look to the inside and change the things there that are causing the blocks to achieving our goals and ultimately our destiny. If each person just takes stock of his or her own life during the festive season we open ourselves to change. A whole new world awaits us. God told us that we must first remove the rock in our own eyes, before we attempt to remove the splinter in our brothers eyes.

World peace begins at home. Maybe this year we must make the entire year a year of festive happenings. Instead of just giving presents to someone because it is Christmas maybe we should give throughout the year to say we care.

May 2008 be a year of love and care throughout the year but also a time for change not in others but a change in ourselves.

The only way to change the world is to change ourselves.

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