Twenty six days in to the year 2012, it is relatively safe to say the year is in “full swing”. Traditionally, people around this time have already made decisions on what they want to achieve this year - some call it “new year resolutions” - and they may have already “failed” but, there is always tomorrow right? Even if that tomorrow does end up being next year?

I have noticed that people tend to start the year on a high, get gradually stressed and then, depressed as the year goes drags on. A lot of the time around November/December, we start to look back on the year just past and claim we have not achieved anything.

Many people in the last couple of months have mentioned that they want to make a change in their life because they are unhappy with the way things currently are; but almost immediately, they start making excuses as to why they can’t change a particular situation. This kind of obviously states to me that they don’t want to change, they want others (or other things) to change. The chances of that happening do not seem so good.

What people may not realise, I think, is that for the majority of us, making a so called “bad decision” is almost always impossible. We are unable to reliably predict the future on a reasonable macro (or even micro) level - and events in the past have already happened. Choosing to do so and stressing over it is borderline insanity. Life goes on regardless of what you decide. The best thing to do - in my humble opinion - is to deal with circumstances as they arise to get the best possible outcome for those involved.

Humans as a people have adapted to whatever environment we are in. It is therefore not unreasonable to deduce that even if we do lose our job or home or anything that it really is not the end of the world. There will usually be other options available. The problem is that when something “bad” happens, some people choose to stay in a constant state of depression thus making their situation worse or disabling them from moving on with life entirely.

It’s not what happens to you in life that counts; it’s how you take it, and what you make of it. ~ Denis Waitley