2012 Resolution #24: Do Something New
Posted on January 30, 2012 by Maria McInnis, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
#24 in our series, today's about trying new things, and creating a new world
Resolve to do something new this year.
Doing something new can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Sometimes it means doing something new in your life, or doing something the world has never seen before. Both interpretations can help you to change your world.
New You
By allowing yourself to try new things; whether its a new food, a new hobby or a new adventure, you allow you to become something more; to expand your abilities and realize new aspects of your potential. Many people go their entire lives without trying anything new: they stick to what they feel works, and so never allow change to enter into their lives.
Dr. Virginia Satir once said that the instinct of survival was not stronger than the instinct to keep things the same. We are creatures of habit who are comfortable in the environments we build around ourselves. History has shown us that people will die to defend our homes, become martyred for their faiths, and kill themselves over unrequited love.
Yet, though most strive to maintain what they have, others work to change and advance the world – expanding our understandings, and trying things that no one has ever accomplished before. This march of progression has led to some of our greatest inventions and conveniences, while also sparking some of the darkest moments. Sometimes to try something new means to make the sacrifice of familiarity in order for the chance to find something wonderful.
Just remember: The instinct to remain the same brought the Dark Ages, while the drive to improve and expand brought the Renaissance. Though we are talking about spans of society, this applies to your life as well. By remaining the same: unbending and unable to leave your box, you risk living in the dark. Some are too afraid to even make windows and a door to see what lies outside of their own lives, and their own habitat.
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” – Albert Einstein
According to Time Magazine, one of the most common deathbed regrets is that someone, in their lifetime, had not allowed themselves to try more new things. Why live in the dark, inside your box when you can cut windows to see what the world has to offer you? Then you might be able to make a plan to what you want to see, or do, or hear someday.
Many people stop here, always wanting, but never able to leave their box. They’ve let in the light, seen that it exists, but are afraid to leave the shade of their box.
That’s when you need to cut a door into your box, so you can not only step out into the world, but also let the world in. By walking out into it, you have the chance to explore.
Remember what the last key of excellence was? It was to Take Action Now. Only by taking action can you ever hope to make changes in your life, and only by opening up your world can you ever hope to find out how far you can go, and how much you can do.
So resolve to do something new this year: it doesn’t have to be something big, just something new, and something that you’ve always wanted to do: because all we really have is here and now
