Award-winning Business Mentor and Well-being Consultant Beverley Jones has provided the following message to our readers for the New Year.
"As we begin 2022, I am sure many of us (if not all) are again as hopeful as we were at the beginning of 2021 that the pandemic, we have been living through will come to a natural end and things over a short space of time will see us back to a life at least similar to how we used to know.
On looking up hope in the dictionary it explained it as:
Noun - a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.
Verb - want something to happen or be the case.
In either context don’t you think it to now be exactly that?
I think all of us to some extent have that feeling of expectation and desire, wanting it to be over, needing the freedom that we once had and I guess took for a granted in many ways.
At times I look back and think things only happened a year ago to realise it was more likely to have been in 2018 (now heading towards four years ago), the last two years well and truly lost in time.
At this monment, I do however think that we should all take stock and look at the lessons the last two years’ experience may have bought us.
Lessons in kindness, lessons in looking out for others, lessons in knowing what is important and maybe what isn’t!
As we move on to what today seems to be another uncertain start to a New Year I want to pass on a message of hope.
A message of going through each day with it in all our hearts for it is by doing so we can collectively pass each day a little stronger.
The last two years have been so tough for so many and I think we have all been touched by the pandemic in some way.
So, start 2022 by holding on to hope, cherish it as an important part of your every day and one day with you I hope we can enjoy the freedoms of 2018 that we all so desire.
Wishing you a Happy New Year, one filled with joy, good health and peace, may all our hopes turn our desire into reality in the year ahead."
Beverley Jones
Author - Made it Thru the Rain
Tel 0750 2375714