Into The New Year

What a great honour and privilege to see and enter the new year; 2024. For people that may not already be aware, the year has already started and time is already ticking. It is what you do with the first (early part of the year) that will determine the rest. If you want the year to deliver favourably to you, then you have to initiate the actions in the early part of the year. It is true that you may have already had plans of what to do or achieve for the year, but now is the time to start it. Any great thing you want to see should be initiated now.

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There are things you need to have in mind to help your actions and decisions for the new year and we shall take a look at some of them. Firstly, you have to know that whatever that will become of you at the end of the year is a direct function of what you have done during the year, so undertake the required actions to deliver what you seek. Of course, results are effects of actions. If a farmer wants to see harvest, then planting should be done in the first place, not the other way round. There is no point in wishing for things to happen, you have to take up actions to make them happen.

The next thing to do is to have a plan of what to do; something to guide your actions aright. If you do not know what you want to achieve, you will not know how to go about it, and you will not also know if you have achieved it or not. This is why adequate planning is very necessary, but much more than that, you have to also make your plans understandable, clear, and achievable. If your plans are something more complex than you can understand then it may lead to discouragement. After all, your plans are to assist you to take the right actions and make the right decision, not to discourage you from taking them.

After drafting your plan, what next? The next step is to follow it with prompt actions. You have to understand that time will neither slow down for you nor wait for you. You are actually the one to take advantage of time and take actions to make the most out of it. More so, understand that the actions you want to take are bound by time. That is, they can only remain valid for a period of time and they may lose their validity. So you have to learn how to take prompt and quick actions. Viewing it from another perspective; if you take a prompt action and did not achieve the required result, you will still have enough time to learn and retake the action without having time choke you. But if you do not take prompt action, there may not even be another time for another trial and the person would have already been running behind time.

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The next point to note is that you should not settle for less. That is, know what you are worth and what you want, and go for it. That you need something does not mean you have to accept anything that comes to you. Build your confidence to a point that you can stand up for what you believe in and go for your goal. Do not accept negativities or a "no" for your answer. If what you are seeing is not what you have intended, then you should rise up and face the situation squarely - then take an action that will turn things around. You do not wait and wish for things to get better or to fall into place for you, you work them out yourself.

The final point here is that you have to upskill and upgrade yourself. You should improve on what you knew or had for the last year. Everyday presents new opportunities to improve on skills, learn something new, which may come handy to face challenges that may come. If you are not learning something new or not improving on yourself - skills, knowledge, etc, then your value or self-worth may not increase. In order to make yourself more valuable, you have to have more than what you had. That is, try to beat your last year's high scores. As a matter of fact, if you have not improved on who you used to be, then you have not made improvements on yourself. Always remember that the year will be for you as you have made it to be.

Happy New Year buddies.

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