Happy New Year to you all. I do hope you had a wonderful Christmas and it was not too stressful?
As we enter 2026, what are you hoping for? World peace, a safer place to live in, hope for the future or just a quiet uneventful year? Whatever your hopes are, a New Year can offer so much to each of us, from pressures to keep up our new year’s resolutions, to achieve something new or literally to get through another year with all that it throws at us with as little discomfort as possible.
Michael Josephson said:
“Approach the New Year with resolve to find opportunities hidden each new day.”
Taking one day at a time can be a really helpful and freeing way to live: it can remove the pressure we feel to have everything sorted and planned for the next 12 months, which can cause much frustration and disappointment if things don’t turn out the way we had planned.
“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” David G. Allen
My wife Linda is really good at finding space each morning to be quiet and write down 3 things she is grateful for that day. A simple but good exercise showing that gratitude helps us appreciate what we have and what good things we can experience each day.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” Albert Einstein
January 1st can be an exciting time or a challenging time: often down to the expectations we place upon ourselves.
Which of the following are you:
“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives … not looking for flaws but for potential.” Ellen Goodman
Enjoy the game and have a Happy New Year!
Written by Baz Gascoyne, Co-CEO of SYCLS. Due to appear in Rotherham United’s match programme on 1st January 2026.
