The famous author of the "Touched By a Story" series, Rabbi Yechiel Spero, gave a shiur recently in Baltimore about "Teshuva."
One idea Rabbi Spero had for improving prayer during Rosh Hashanah was that a person should make a list of all of the good and all of the bad things that have happened this past year, both globally and in one's personal life. For the good, you would include that there is less terrorism in Israel, you got that raise, etc. For the bad, you would include the kedoshim in India, Madoff, the car accident you might have had this year, etc. Once you complete your list, take a look at it, contemplate on how all of those things, both good and bad, the occured over the course of this year were determined last Rosh Hashanah!
This Rosh Hashanah, based on your tefilot, Hashem will be making the decrees for all of the good and bad things that will happen this upcoming year. Rabbi Spero suggests that you take that list and put it in your siddur to remind you of the koach of your tefillot and if you have any trouble with having kavana during the long tefillot, just take out the paper to remind yourself what it is that you are doing.
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