As we begin the Christmas season around this beautiful world, a period of reflection often occurs. Christmas (for most of the western world) is a time when we think about the year gone by, and about how far we have come along the road, and then we turn to the new year and begin to think about how far we are going to go and what we are going to do with our time next year.
We all live life at different paces, sometimes we move quickly, at other times more slowly. We each choose how fast we want to move, making decisions that alter our progress and that sometimes take us in different directions. Sometimes those decisions help us gather momentum, at other times we lose it. That got me to thinking about physics...I was never really any good at school physics, I think the highest exam mark I ever got was around 40% despite the attempts of some very good teachers!, and the lowest was somewhere in the teens ....now a few years on from school, the querky reality is how much physics influences my thinking about the life journey. Physics has a strong correlation to philosophy. Momentum, velocity and resistance are all terms you'll find in every physics text book - it's interesting that we are taught physics as a science not as philosophy, because so much of Einstein's, Newton's and other scientists theories can be applied to philosophical thought and life in general.
As you go through the last 5 or 10 sleeps until Santa is with you, think about which decisions made last year have resulted in greater momentum and those which have met resistance, and think about the pace at which you want to live next year. Begin the year with the end in mind. Paint a picture of the 3 things you want to achieve by the time Santa appears again, in another 365 days or so.
If you're anything like me, you'll achieve a lot more than just those 3!
Enjoy Christmas, and may 2010 bring you peace
We all live life at different paces, sometimes we move quickly, at other times more slowly. We each choose how fast we want to move, making decisions that alter our progress and that sometimes take us in different directions. Sometimes those decisions help us gather momentum, at other times we lose it. That got me to thinking about physics...I was never really any good at school physics, I think the highest exam mark I ever got was around 40% despite the attempts of some very good teachers!, and the lowest was somewhere in the teens ....now a few years on from school, the querky reality is how much physics influences my thinking about the life journey. Physics has a strong correlation to philosophy. Momentum, velocity and resistance are all terms you'll find in every physics text book - it's interesting that we are taught physics as a science not as philosophy, because so much of Einstein's, Newton's and other scientists theories can be applied to philosophical thought and life in general.
As you go through the last 5 or 10 sleeps until Santa is with you, think about which decisions made last year have resulted in greater momentum and those which have met resistance, and think about the pace at which you want to live next year. Begin the year with the end in mind. Paint a picture of the 3 things you want to achieve by the time Santa appears again, in another 365 days or so.
If you're anything like me, you'll achieve a lot more than just those 3!
Enjoy Christmas, and may 2010 bring you peace
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