Today marks the official start of a New
Year, as many of us are faced with the reality of going back to work, we are officially
and truly ushering in yet another year of challenges and the realities of life.
It is virtually the start to something new but yet old in our lives. We now
look for ways to better our lives, make resolutions, and come up with more progressive
ideas on how to face the challenges ahead, set new goals and ambitions and how
we are going to achieve these goals etc. But another reality to this is that many
of us at this time of the year are often faced with the realities that comes
with the ending and beginning of a year, especially the realities that speaks
to what we have or have not achieved in the past 365 days.
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The obvious truth is that if we have not
achieved anything significant in the past year, we are likely to fall into a
state of negativity, self-pity and low morale (wrong mindsets), therefore the
essence of this piece is to help you open the 2014 chapter of your life with
confidence, belief and the necessary enthusiasm and how you are going to
maintain this throughout 2014.
Look at it this way, everyone goes in to a
new year with hopes of emerging victorious at the end but there is never a
guarantee of that, a lot can happen in 365 days (both positive and negative).
Life is never an open book, you may have worked hard to achieve your goals but
the odds still came out against you based on a lot of factors, and that doesn't
mean you have to stop dreaming, hoping and believing that your goals will be
achieved. this is exactly the reason why you should prepare yourself to give it
another go in 2014, continue to dream, make resolutions (even if it’s the same resolutions
as last year's and the other past years of your life), bottom line is that you
want to achieve those goals, all you need to do is to go in to the new year
with Fresh ideas (lessons learned), Fresh approach, positive thinking and
renewed Belief and a never give up approach (it is all about what you Believe), "Whatever the mind can
conceive and believe, it can achieve."
We need to realise that sometimes it is our
own thinking that's keeping us from being our best, you in fact did achieved a
lot in 2013 but because your focus is on the bigger achievements (Mostly
material achievements, such as buying a new Car, House, Clothes etc.), you
failed to realise and acknowledge what you perceive as small achievements
(which in fact are bigger achievements and matters the most). You may have
helped somebody who was desperately in need of your help and that help may have
changed that Person’s life significantly, you may have written a motivational
piece on a crucial day that may have claimed a person's life but because that
person read your piece, they had a change in thinking and how they view life,
you may have shared your food with someone on the streets or given them
some money, these are the little but big
achievements that matters the most in our lives, we just don't realise it and
categorise them as such.
So if you are going to enter in to 2014
with negative thoughts (I'm not good enough, I'm never going to achieve my
goals, I've tried once too many times and have failed, I'm never going to break
free from my old habits and addictions, this wasn't meant to be etc.), of cause
you are going to fail, because you have already planted a negative seed in your
head and that seed will stay there until you remove it yourself, change your
mindset and start planting positive seeds in to your mind, think and speak
positive, compliment your hard word with positivity, believe that your hard
work will eventually pay off, believe that your break through is near, see the
light at the end of the tunnel, believe that God wants you to travel that road
in order for you to gain enough wisdom and experience to be able to better
handle the bigger tasks in your life . He (God) wants you to be a life changer
and the only way you are going to handle that task is when you have gone through
the tough patches in your life (I call it his tough love). Learn to remove the
wrong mindset and start thinking positively because you are a champion.
Always remember and acknowledge that you
are smart, you have potential, and you are able and talented. In fact your God
given talents are the key to your success, step in to 2014 with those talents
as your guns into battle, those talents are the ammunition that you will use to
give life yet another go. Always be thankful that God gave you those talents to
move your life forward, use them as your bargaining tools in 2014, be confident
about them, negotiate your path to success using those talents, don't be shy to
expose them, don't be afraid to use them (life is unpredictable so give it a go
Now).
Things may have gone wrong in your life in
2013, but the good News is that you are still alive and you can turn things
around, you are about to walk in to a New year, new chapter, new begging, new
ideas, new and endless possibilities. You are a Champion of your own destiny,
get rid of your insecurities and start running the race as a champ because you
were born a champ, you are a winner in this race called "life", you
are destined to win it but it is you and your thought-line that will determine
whether you cross the finish line or not.
Forget about 2013 because it is now in the
past, forget about the mistakes you made in 2013 (but learn from them) and the
opportunities you missed out on, forgive and forget about those who wronged you
in 2013, forget about who says what about you and your efforts and just run
your own race, be yourself, be a little bit crazy this year, apply a bit of vigour
in all your endeavors this year, continue to maintain your hope and truly believe
that you are about to make it.
Walk in to 2014 with confidence, belief,
faith, positivity, freedom from wrong mindsets, freedom from excuses, zeal for
life, superiority, boldness because "you were born to be great"
Happy New Year, Happy New Beginnings, Happy
20Fortunes..................
#MeditationsOfTheHeart
