Each is potentially life changing.
1. Give thanks. Once a day take a quiet time to feel gratitude for what I have.
2. Praise. Catch someone doing something well and say so.
3. Family time. Make sure that I share quality time with my family.
4. Discover meaning. Take time out, once in a while, to ask some basic existential questions.
5. Live your values. Establish good life habits and role-model them.
6. Forgive. Life is too short to bear a grudge or seek revenge. Move on.
7. Keep learning. Never be afraid to learn something new.
8. Be a good listener. Employ active and empathetic listening.
9. Create moments of silence in the soul. If only five minutes daily, set aside all distracting technology, and just inhale the heady air of existence, the joy of being.
10. Transform suffering. Discourage “victim” mentality and instead encourage all to become agents of hope.
Please keep Peter accountable for these. He drew these ten resolutions (rewriting them somewhat) from the website below. He has subscribed to the reflections by Sir Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of London and these were Sack’s 2011 resolution suggestions. They have been very helpful guides that have sustained Peter through 2011 and will continue to help in his chaplaincy service to the school community. It seems very appropriate to share them at this stage as a first blog for the year.
Sacks summed up: “Life's too full of blessings to waste time and attention on artificial substitutes. Live, give, forgive, celebrate and praise: these are still the best ways of making a blessing over life, thereby turning life into a blessing.”
[Page 3 &4, accessed: 21January 2011 the day after Peter's job interview]
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