The year becomes new and the day becomes holy, when you sanctify it by sadhana, not otherwise. Sadhana can grow only in a field fertilised by Love. Love or Prema is the essential quality of Bhakti (devotion to God). The love you have towards material objects, name, fame, wife and children, etc., should be sanctified by being subsumed by the more overpowering Love of God. Add two spoons of water to two seers of milk, the water too is appreciated as milk! At present your sadhana can be described only as mixing two litres of water with two spoons of milk! Have the Love of God filling and thrilling your heart; then, you cannot hate anyone, you cannot indulge in unhealthy rivalries, you will not find fault with anyone. Life then becomes soft, sweet and smooth.