Happy New Seer

Taken from Divya Silbermann's Adventures in My Kitchen Pinterest board

Happy New Year.

Happy New Seer.

By seer, I meant the advisers, role models, mentors, coaches and advice you will invite into your life next year.

What will you learn next year and from whom?

And what new trajectory might it set you on?

In your career, in your personal life?

I wonder.

Cheers to finding the right diet and fitness solution – hope you get lucky like I did.  

Here are a spr – ink – ling of other ideas to get you exploring.

Cheers to taking your cooking ability to the next level – The Food Channel, Cake Boss and Pinterest are a flick of a tv or computer switch away.

And your favorite family cooks are just a phone call away.

Cheers to thinking outside the education box – with help from Academic Earth, Khan Academy, TED, Wikipedia, your local library’s website, and everything else the web has to offer.

This piece of advice comes straight from the heart - here’s the scoop.

Cheers to getting your finances under control - the Suze Orman way, the Dave Ramsey Way, the David Bach way, the Bogleheads way, or the whole Personal Finance section in Barnes & Nobles way. 

And cheers to not making any of the mistakes I have made, to adopting the right approach; and knowing all the pitfalls and traps, all the pitfalls and traps.

Cheers to using smart shopping tools whether you are buying a car, shopping for health insurance, or going out to eat.

P.S. If you are going a Pho place, try their green papaya salad (a salad I have gushed about before in this here post)

Cheers to listening to Tony Robbins, Joel Osteen or Wayne Dyer if you need to reignite your passion, motivation and determination.

Or reading stories of people who have done incredible things.

Cheers to launching your own business the Naveen Selvadurai way, the Sean Belnick way, the Susan Gregg Koger way.

Cheers to having the courage to doing it even if you have to change course.

Cheers to being able to step up to a podium confidently with the help of Toastmasters.

And cheers to thinking of ways to spice up every speech.

Cheers to learning the art of conversation from Socrates and becoming a critical thinker and free spirit like Diogenes.

And not missing out on the nuggets of wisdom passed to you by family and friends.

Cheers to learning how to live from the wisest of all seers – our family pets - I quote John Grogan (author of Marley and Me):

“A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.”

I hope 2015 brings you all this and more.

Happy New Seer.

Hope you find teachers wherever you go and whatever you do.

Or, as Sarah Caldwell put it….. “Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.” 

Thanks for reading and see you next week....M