The truth is, tomorrow never comes. All any of us has is this moment. The simple secret to living an abundant life is to live fully right now, enjoying what you already have as you continue to prepare for your future.

Using Your Best In The New Year

At this time of transition between end of one year and beginning of another, I invite you to ask yourself this question, “What am I saving for best?

Rather than make typical resolutions about what you are going to do differently, think about what you already have that you do not enjoy right now because you are saving it for some undetermined time in future. Instead of making New Year’s resolutions about weight you are going to lose and money you are going to save and number of times you will go to gym each year, resolve that you will use best that you already have. If you don’t use it now, when will you?

As an exercise in abundance thinking, go through your home and find three items you are saving for “best.” And if you have a box of sterling silver hidden away somewhere, you might resolve to use silver at least once a week. Whatever it is that you have that you do not use because you think that it is too good for right now, resolve to use it.

Using The Best In You And after you find three material things, then you might ask another question. What is best in you that you are not using? What are you saving for some time in future? Is it book you have been thinking about writing? The music that remains unsung within you? The business that remains merely an idea in your mind? Whatever best is that you are saving for later, resolve that you will use your best right now, and in new year.

Years later it dawned on me. What I had previously thought of as “Sherry can” and “I can’t” (but ought to) was actually nothing more than her interest in something and my lack of interest.

So it is with many things in life that become basis for self put-downs. It’s not often that we simply can’t do something or aren’t good at it (math, writing, public speaking, handy work, mechanics, etc.). Generally, it’s just that our interests lie elsewhere.

Now, if Sherry is doing something like building a fence I try to help. If she’s doing something in which I feel I’d just be in way, I find something in which I have a greater interest – a good book. Then, we’re both happy.

BARBER-OSOPHY: There’s a vast difference in “I can’t” and “I’m not interested.”

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