Before you start the New Year!!!

1. As you begin the New Year remember that your goals, your vision or your dreams are YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. There is one person standing and ready to cross over, that is YOU.

2. In order to start a New Year there’s gotta be something you are expecting. When i speak of expecting i am not referring to the “I have prayed and i have asked God to bless me with a house this year” I am talking about I am already saving for my house mode, I have already secured a designer to help me choose colours for my dining room, my bedroom kind of mode. I am speaking of the i see myself dining with my friends and so I want to take cooking classes to make that happen or I am gonna work  so hard till I can afford a chef kinda mode…Expecting while you work. Even the bible teaches us that faith without works is dead. So what are you working on now? It does not have to start in 2016 you know.

3. Be decisive about where you are going this year and stick to it. Often we set so many goals at the beginning of the year. I don’t know what kind of syndrome this is or if it stems of social media and family pressure but one does not have to succumb to that.  Choose your own lane, the pace you will use and how you will achieve your goals

4. It’s okay not to get it right the 1st time. Try again. It’s really that simple

5. When it gets tough, remember why you started. What frustrated you, what drove you to start the business or the journey to weight loss or to write a book?

6. One goal at a time is more than enough. Even if it is just to get a driver’s licence to go back to school and register for that Degree.There is no pressure in this lane. It is a journey.

7. A new way of living and thinking requires a high level of awareness and wisdom. Are you prepared to leave some people behind, change old habits, learn a new skill or do things differently? As we welcome the New Year, ask yourself what is it that you are willing to sacrifice in order to just achieve that one major goal that means everything to you.

When i started writing my 1st book , which is yet to be published i had to give up the fun times with friends and family. I could only write at night when everyone else was sleeping. I could start writing from 10 to 2 or 3 a.m. It was crazy and definitely an emotional time for me as well. I had to revisit some things in my past that i was not ready to re-visit but that time i spent alone made me stronger. My journey may be different from yours but we do know that nothing was ever achieved without sacrifice…

HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS!!!