Was 2019 our ‘best year ever’ in which we got everything we wanted, or was it ‘the worst’, just a series of ‘terrible’ events for us to struggle through?

It’s easy to get caught up in viewing moments and events as being positive or negative; ones that we should be proud of, excited by, or jealous of (if others are having the fun), even frustrated or angry about - because it’s ‘normal’ to behave this way, ‘it’s just my personality’.

Perhaps we’re planning for 2020 to be the year in which everything goes according to our plan and we get what we want, and deserve; a year in which we’re really #livingmybestlife.

If we continue to look to extraneous events for happiness we might be on the road to disappointment. Instead we could ask ourselves, ‘despite the challenges I face am I able to think, speak and act in ways that contribute to a greater sense of ease and steadiness for myself and others?’ If we can do even a tiny bit of this we’re already ‘winning at life’.

Nothing is lasting and most things are outside of our control. But however 2020 pans out, moment by moment, we all have the capacity as human beings to cultivate more loving kindness, more compassion, more joy and also a state of equanimity.

As we bring these positive behaviours into our relationships with others we might just find that we’re creating a more peaceful and happy experience, for not only ourselves, but everyone and everything around us.

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