NEW is an unlimited source of energy that can give us extra strength to face our personal challenges.
‘If there is any pattern in our lives, it is ruled by chance, which causes change, that gives us choices. Every choice is a beginning, no matter how small. Each one is NEW.’
It is never too late for a fresh start. Thinking NEW moves us away from fixed ideas that hold us back. Attitudes breed barriers. With NEW thoughts we break through to explore new opportunities that make a difference. NEW is also a potent cure for prejudice and intolerance.
‘When everything is NEW, anything is possible.’
NEW changes the way we live. For anyone who asks, ‘Where to now?’, this book is packed with refreshingly accessible and helpful ideas. It also holds our interest with a story in which the leading characters recharge their freedom, purpose and vitality by learning to think NEW.
We can only effectively use the power of our free will to take control of our lives if we recognise how much we are being influenced by other people’s ideas, and learn how to see them in a NEW way.
‘How we think is how we live. When our thoughts are free, we are free.’
NEW thoughts give us new strength to handle our fears, frustrations and uncertainties. They show us new ways out of the swamp, banishing our apathy, boosting our confidence and self-respect, clearing up our confusions, getting rid of hang-ups that blind us to real values.
‘NEW is the music that will change your life.’
NEW has an important part to play in this book. It is our reward for understanding and noticing what chance and change can do.
Our entire existence changes constantly. Never before has it been easier to notice and become involved. With the click of a mouse, or the touch of a button, the whole world becomes our playground – a sky’s-the-limit jackpot of changing excitements all designed to keep us better informed and entertained, and make everything easier, faster. An endless stream of NEW beginnings.
Are we lucky? Not much doubt about the answer, you may say. But this treasure house comes with a problem that is outside our control, and for which no health warning has yet been written. We are remorselessly tempted into information overload – binge thinking. And here’s the difficulty: we don’t see it happening. Like all excesses, binge thinking needs to be acknowledged before we can work out what we want to do about it.
Deluged by ideas, we find it hard to keep things simple, to remember basic realities that help us keep our balance. Or are we deliberately ignoring them because they’re obvious, and so last year? We shouldn’t. Even the most familiar thoughts have a lot to offer if we can see them in a NEW way.
When we wake up to what is NEW now, we can be free to grasp the full richness of NEW choices and NEW beginnings. How much we benefit depends on how often, and how clearly, we remember the most important reality of all: ‘I am NEW now.’
