It’s a new year. Most people use the occasion as a means to spur short-lived forays into exercise, to temporarily quit smoking, or attempt other such quality of life improvements. These tend to take the title “resolutions,” and though by definition the term should delineate an unwavering adherence to some purpose, most seem to somehow fizzle out and are forgotten by mid-February. Apparently the rolling over of another calendar year isn’t quite the drill sergeant motivational force that people would like it to be. This should come as no surprise. As much as a new year seems like a momentous event worthy of massive glitter-ball drops, champagne toasts, and an excuse to look as fly as possible, the fact is that pageantry aside, a new year is just another day. Now before I am accused of being the DUI checkpoint killing everyone’s holiday buzz, realize that I am not discounting the obvious fun of celebration, nor am I saying that I don’t willingly participate in every bit of the chaos, my criticism is merely that New Years doesn’t motivate people. On January 1st people wake up slightly hungover with a laundry list of potential life improvements. This is all well and good, except that if they lacked the motivation up until this point there is very little chance that the fact that it’s now January 1st will be enough. What’s missing is inspiration.
For this reason I would like to propose a toast. Cheers to those who inspire. Cheers to the people who make you want to wake up and kick ass every single day. These are the best people in the world. They deserve their own countdown and chorus of champagne flutes clicking in their honor.
If you know someone, live with someone, love someone, or even merely know of someone who you find inspirational, thank them. These are the people who make you want to better yourself on a daily basis. They aren’t calling you at 6:30 in the morning and telling you to get up and run, they don’t have to. Their inspiration has more finesse than that. They are a silver-haired, saxophone playing Bill Clinton seducing the White House intern of your motivation. Just sharing your life with these people is enough to make you want to better yourself. If you have someone like this in your life you know it—they are everything that January 1st is not. They provide you every day with the inspiration that no list of resolutions on the fridge ever could. Surround yourself with people who make you want to be the best and grow with them. Inspire one another.
That’s something worth dropping a glitter-ball from the rooftops for.
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