Hello there, once again it’s this time of the year that we all think about the year that passed. What went perfect, what could have been better for us and the ones we love. We all try to find things that we want to change and make commitments to our selves for a better new year.

My favorite teacher once told me the following and it really changed my approach to life… Perhaps it can change yours too.. Think about it for a second.

If we take all latin letters and assign a value to them according to the order they appear we’ll have values like:

A= 1 / B=2 / C=3 So on, so forth.

What if we try to calculate the sum of all word-things that matter to us and find out what plays the most important role to change our life for the better?

Let’s test the word “learn”. The things we’ve learned the things we want to learn to become better the next year.

L = 12
e = 5
a = 1
r = 18
n = 14

Sum = 50% Well with new knowledge we can achieve 50% of “completeness”. Very good but still not enough. Let’s move on…

What about our dreams, follow them and make the things we always wanted to happen but never even tried to.

D = 4
r = 18
e = 5
a = 1
m = 13

Hm… What about love then? The feeling that we always seek and try to have it in our lives. Is that enough to make us feel complete on that new year?

Sum = 41% and still i am not convinced.

L = 12
o = 15
v = 22
e = 5

Sum = 54% Damn! Not even love? There must be something wrong in that stupid algorithm…

What about the word live? To live our lives the way we want to, to be able to say no to the things that make us anxious, to dare to do things that we couldn’t even imagine we were able to, before?

l = 12
i = 9
v = 22
e = 5

Sum = 48%

Ok… That’s it .. Nothing can fulfill us… It’s in the human nature to always want for more. To never feel that we are happy with what we have. What we need is…

Attitude

a = 1
t = 20
t = 20
i = 9
t = 20
u = 21
d = 4
e = 5

Sum = 100%

Attitude is the key to personal success and fulfillment of our dreams, attitude can make us live our lives with a meaning and make that stupid half-empty glass of water, half-full… Stop being passive worrying about what went wrong and feel happy about what you already have accomplished up to now and care about the people you have that are close to you those days.

Holidays are not here to make us worried. They’re here to give us a chance to change the way we look at things. And the most important, to:

Stop following things happening and become one of the people that Make Things Happen.

My best wishes for the holidays, and i really hope that the new year will find you with a new attitude. After all, sometimes we don’t have to have more, we just have to appreciate what we already have.

Aggelos A.k.a. Parakmh