If you ’re like me , this class ’s holiday season passed me by in the blink of an eye . I hardly believe it ’s over . I barely got the Christmas Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree up , and the garland , well , it was sadly left behind in a box in the attic . Now , in this week between Christmas and Jan. 1 , we have a footling down time to think and prepare for the new yr ahead .
This is a much needful sentence for all of us : a time to clean up theholiday trimmings — unless you scant on them like I did this year — a time to tinker with the new gadgets and tools you received as holiday gifts ; a prison term to go around thoseseed catalogsout and start plotting your spring garden ; a time to get your files andfarm recordsin Holy Order ; and a fourth dimension to posture back and think of all the projects that go by the roadside this year and what we most need to accomplish on our farm , or farm ambition , in the coming month .
If you didn’tbuy the new belongings , paint the fencing , repair the roof , start theCSAyou intended to , or generate the farm income you postulate to make end gather , looking back on this year can seem a lilliputian disappointing . Cast those headache aside . The year is over and those are thing you belike can not change before midnight on Jan. 1 . We ca n’t start the year over but , fortunately , we have a unexampled one in front of us to work on all those things leftover from last twelvemonth ’s lean and a few more . Now is the time to require ourselves why certain things did n’t get accomplished — if they were in our control or not . It ’s not the time to trounce ourselves up over what run wrong or did n’t pan out — it ’s metre to think positively about all that can go right and all that can happen in the next 12 month .
So , this week , I challenge you to not only make a lean of what you want to get done in 2014 , but also to back up your list item with some actions and first steps that can help you get a jumpstart on making matter happen . expect at your tilt every week to see how things are progressing and ascertain item you ’ll need to solve on sooner than later to reach them in a timely matter . Be naturalistic and prioritize so you ’ll be able to achieve the thing that matter most for you and your farmstead . The unexampled roof might require a new loan — research a few lenders to connect with the first week of January . A paint fencing might need warm weather . find fault a week in later spring and go ahead and ask friends and family to keep that date free to help out . An lopsided ledger Bible might mean you need a little fiscal consulting . Write a admonisher to check online for free resources for Fannie Farmer in your community .
Goals without action will always be goal — neveraccomplishments . So let ’s learn from the event of this closing year , heed to others , reach out for help when we involve it and cerebrate positively about all we can attain in 2014 . It ’s time to turn the varlet and start up fresh . Happy New Year !
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