Day 365 of Festivus: 2013 ends with a whimper

.Day 365 of Festivus: 2013 ends with a whimper. 2014 Feats of strength

As I close up 2013, a contemplation on what I have learned and practiced and what I have learned and have not practiced.

As I was preparing myself to write this, I thought of Mike Tyson at his best. When he was young, still under the tutelage of Cus D’Amato, he was an unstoppable force. Tactically, he moved his head so quickly from side to side and had such tremendous body movements and precision his opponents could never find a target and were very vulnerable to his attacks. Then new management and trainers took over. Mike started believing his own mythology and he started standing square in front of his adversary.

I observed this lesson but did not properly apply or sustain. 2014 will be consumed with movement.

I did not spend enough time with friends and I thought my own busyness excused this lapse, that somehow I could catch up for time lost enjoying their company. I was wrong and I am also excited to spend more time with friends.

I did not write enough down and I did not blog enough.  I will now write everything and blog as a ritual. Most of it will be to my personal, a locked up thing.

2013 I felt my response time to emails and items on my todo list lingered an unreasonable amount of time. That is a horrible habit and one of my highest priorities is to remedy that.

Because of the elections of friends, our family office/philanthropy, ‘side’ businesses/ and investments I felt I tried to do too much ‘front’ and ‘middle’ work and didn’t do enough completing.

I did not do enough daily meditation, this is personally shameful to me.

And, lastly I did not spend enough quality time with family and with myself. I did not communicate openly with them or with me.

I forgive myself.

2014 will be corrective for me. It is the best thing that 2014 promises, not a ‘new’ me but rather a more aware self.

The end?