Welcoming 2022! – Anderson Connect

Welcome to 2022! We do hope that each of you enjoyed a holiday season filled with memorable moments and one that allowed you time for rest and rejuvenation.

Although there are still challenges at play in our communities, we feel infinitely grateful that we have the opportunity to work with you towards better tomorrows. We commend you for your resiliency, your tenacity, and we know that 2022 will be filled with hopes and triumphs.

The Anderson team is here to support you whenever needed. One of the ways we do this is by providing a monthly inspirational connection, right here. The motivational tidbits, stories and videos below are designed to encourage you to pause, bask in the possibilities and return to your goals, recharged.

In this month’s Anderson Connect, we will be sharing the following. Hope you enjoy!

• Welcoming 2022
• A Short Story
• A Video Story

Welcoming 2022!

Here are our top 5 picks of motivating messages and quotes to get the new year started.

1. “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” – Buddha
2. “A new year is a time for inspirational dreams but more importantly a time to set your goals to see the dreams turn into a reality.” – Samuel Fixon
3. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – J.P. Morgan
4. “Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
5. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

A Short Story

The Real Meaning of Peace

There once lived a king who announced that he would award the artist who painted the best painting depicting “peace”. Many great painters sent the king several of their best art pieces. One of the pictures among the various masterpieces was of a calm lake perfectly mirroring peaceful, towering snow-capped mountains. Above that was a blue clear sky with fluffy clouds. The picture was idyllic. Most of the people who viewed the pictures of peace from various artists thought that it was the best of them all.

But when the king announced the winner, everyone was shocked. The picture which won the prize had a mountain too, but it was rugged and bare. The sky looked very intense; there was lightning. This did not look peaceful at all. It looked as if the artist had mistakenly submitted his painting depicting a storm rather than representing peace. But if anyone looked closely at the painting, they could see a tiny bush growing in the crack of a rock. In the bush, a mother bird had built her nest. In the midst of the rush of dull and dark weather, the bird sat on her nest with peace.

Moral: Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise or trouble. Peace means to be in the midst of all the chaos and maintain a presence of calm. Real peace is a state of mind, not a state of the surroundings. The mother bird in her calm, despite her chaotic surroundings, indeed was the best representation of peace.

Source: https://alltimeshortstories.com/meaning-of-peace/

A Video Story

New Year’s Resolutions

Wishing you and your loved ones a 2022 that reflects your highest visions for peace, health, success, and happiness!