Please Note: This is a guest post from Henri, a passionate new blogger who shares “Lifestyle Ideas For Conscious People” at The Wake Up Cloud.

A Toast: To New Beginnings!

Each year we begin anew, but does it really work that way? A lot of people make new year’s resolutions, but how many of them actually stick? The majority probably are forgotten within a few weeks.

What makes these promises stick? Do we have to be jolted by an accident or even be threatened by death to really want to change? I believe most people need something to slap them in the face and remind them that we are here for a reason.

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As 2009 draws to an end, so does my first year of blogging… and I can’t help but look back. Where did I start? What have I accomplished? And, more importantly, where do I want to take Quest for Balance now?

When I first learned what a blog was, like most people, I learned about Seth Godin. To this day, no matter what he writes, I read it. Some of his posts are more relevant to my situation than others, but every last one of them is oozing with useful, practical pearls of wisdom.

(How does he DO that?)

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From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.

From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.

Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:

From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,

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