Let’s raise ourselves a little higher in these three primordial relationships :
1. Our relationship with ourselves. Let’s make an accounting of what bad character traits we have that don’t let us reach our potentials. Work on one of them this year consciously. Love and appreciate yourself a little more.
2. Our relationships with others. See what negative feelings are generated in certain troublesome relationships. See if there is a pattern in the emotion. Most of the time we are put in a situation where our emotions are put into a roller coaster. We start to doubt ourselves and get angry at others. Instead of blaming others for what we feel, let’s start taking responsibility for it. If we wronged someone let’s accept it and try to fix it. If someone wronged us let’s be forgiving and move on.
3. Our relationship with G-d, the most precious one and the one we neglect the most. When we are in peace with others we are in peace with G-d. The other two relationships at the end take us to our relationship with G-d. Everything is about Him and doing what is right. So let’s show Him our love and appreciation by doing a little more, that extra, of what He wills. Take one new mitzvah this year, learn a little more, pray a little more and remember that, that EXTRA is what makes the Ordinary Extraordinary
