New Year’s Day is the first day of a new year, and is celebrated on the Gregorian Calender as January 1. January 1 on the Julian Calender correlates with the 14th of January on Gregorian.  New Years has been celebrated since Ancient Rome although some other dates were also used in Rome.  All countries use the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, except for Israel and celebrate this day as a public holiday. The use of Fireworks in spectacular fashion has become the way, at the stroke of Midnight,  to see in the New Year.

What better time then at the beginning of an exiting New Year to make a resolution to yourself about something you want to do differently or something you want to accomplish. But why is it then so difficult to keep a New Year’s Resolution?   One suggestion is that when we make these promises to ourselves, we make them only to feel good about ourselves and not really to keep them.  Others suggest that it is because, with all our good intentions to change or get started with something, we just get sidetracked or swamped with everyday life, considering everyone else goes there own way with their own agendas and resolutions.    Be that as it may, I say making any effort to better yourself appose to doing nothing and criticising those that do, is a good start.  And regardless of how many times we have to start again, its about not giving up.

In the wise words taken from the writings of Napoleon Hill in ‘The Law of Success’.

~”Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.”~

Have a Gloriously Positively Prosperous New Year, Enjoy 2010.