30 Dec For Real New Year’s Resolutions, Look to Mr. Rogers
Thinking about resolutions for 2020? How about something more meaningful than ‘exercise more’ or ‘eat less’? Maybe we could all try to be a little more like Fred Rogers:
- Be a better person
- Be present for others
- Accept others just the way they are
Here are some quotes by him that are inspiring us for 2020:
“It’s not the honors and the prizes and fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.”
Courtesy USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/01/29/tom-hanks-mr-rogers/1075815001/
“Our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has—or ever will have—something inside that is unique to all time. It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.”
“The most important thing is that we are able to be one-to-one, you and I with each other at the moment. If we can be present to the moment with the person that we happen to be with, that’s what’s important.”
“To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
We love the idea of each person being unique to all time. If we don’t pay attention we might miss an unrepeatable essence.
Be a better person (good stuff as our bedrock!), be present to others, and accept them just the way they are. That should fill our year with striving.
Go here https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-keep-your-new-years-resolutions-2795719 for why it’s good to make resolutions, and strategies for actually keeping them.
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