Happy New Year With Lots More To Come!

Happy Final Year?

A lot has been made of the fact that the Mayan calendar ends with 2012. Those doom and gloomsters who like to continually predict the end of days, the end of the world, the end of civilization as we know it, have been having a field day with the so-called apocalyptic date of December 21, 2012, or the Winter Solstice in 2012, which is supposedly the date it will, or rather WE will all go down.

This all strikes me silly rather than striking me down. Many Mayan researchers have disputed even that date from the calendar that was created in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and also used by other ancient peoples like the Aztecs. The one thing all predictions of doom and the end of the world have in common is that they have all been proven 100% wrong when the supposed date actually arrives.

But I’d like to suggest that we use this as a positive instrument for change. What if you imagined that 2012 actually was the end of the world as you know it, or rather the beginning of a whole new world, a whole new paradigm, a shift in the way everything operates in relationship to you, and you in relationship to everything and everyone else in the world. In other words, to paraphrase cartoon cliche, picture a white-bearded prophet carrying a sign that reads:

The Beginning Is Near!

After all, the end of anything is always the beginning of something else. So here’s an exercise you can use to manifest this new paradigm in 2012. It’s one you can begin right now and continue for as long as it takes. There’s no hurry, you will definitely have a lot more time than just the months leading up to December 21st.  Make a simple list of 100 things you can support the end of in 2012, leading to a lot more opportunity and space and time in your life to make wonderful new beginnings, changes, and breakthroughs in your life.  You can choose any heading you like. I started mine like this:

The End Of…..

1. All restrictions I create for myself on what I can do.

2. Waiting for friends I want to stay in touch with to reach out to me.

3. Telling people I am a technical idiot.

4. Being stingy about using the words, “I love you.”

As you can see, they don’t have to be profound endings or life-changing declarations. That’s it, just four so far, but I am thinking about quite a few others. I am in no hurry, I have all year to reach 100. As I compile my list of endings which can lead to beginnings, I plan to read it over and over again. This is a big year we’re talking about. A major election in the U.S., and major continuing upheavals around the world. While no apocalypse is planned or expected or likely, those who are not willing to look at their reality in a new way could be left behind. Not by The Rapture, but by the changing world passing them by. I don’t intend to be in that group, and I don’t think you do either.

Happy New Endings and Beginnings,

Jerry