HAPPY NEW YEAR - JADE LARA (08/01/2015)

I have a great feeling that this year will be amazing not only for me, but for everyone. It appears to me that everyone has a bright and positive take on 2015 which is good to see and believe me, you don’t see that often.  We’re already seven days in to the year and I am still struggling to believe that we’ve entered a new year already! Before you know it half the year is gone and Christmas will be round the corner again. Ha-ha.

Every New Year’s Eve, is the time we all start to think about what the past year has brought us. It’s that time of the year that we focus on the changes we’d like to make or need to make that had an impact on the previous year. We all make New Year’s resolutions and more often than not, we all break them. Reason being we often try and fulfil quite big resolutions only to fail in the end because although they may be achievable in your head, our hearts aren’t really in it and some things are easy to write down but difficult to do physically. In other words, ‘it’s easier said than done.’

I can honestly say for the past couple of years I have set my self-resolutions but failed to actually do or make any of those things happen.  It’s a normal thing, however, this year I am determined to make those things transpire. We often make resolutions to change an aspect of our lives for the better and when speaking to different people; it’s great to hear that much of their focus is on their own self development. Starting off with small changes can believe it or not make a big impact on the quality of your life. I think self-development comes first and then everything else will fall in to place gradually.

 Patience is key, you have the whole year to fulfil these resolutions so don’t try and do everything in one month just for show. This is how most of us fail to complete our resolutions because there is this idea that you have to do everything so quickly. Focus on one resolution and like I said above everything should fall in to place. Think of dominoes for example, once the first one goes down so do the rest. I believe that your resolutions should be realistic and achievable things and as you complete these things, new doors will open and you’ll find yourself fulfilling things that are not even on your list.

In addition, you’ve got to work hard to see results. You can’t possibly think that writing things down is good enough to fulfil it. If you need to attain certain grades for example, but you are not doing what you’re supposed to do, you are potentially setting yourself up for failure and you’ve only got yourself to blame.

Make sure you write your resolutions down, meditate on it, and pray on it. Try your best to make these things happen no matter how long it may take. I cannot stress this enough, place them somewhere visible, and be it on your wall or on your door ; let it be the first thing you see in the morning and the last thing you see before you sleep to constantly remind yourself. Don’t let it get to the middle of the year and you’ve strayed away from your resolutions or you cannot remember. This is another thing which we often all do that allows us to break our resolutions, be sure to remember what they are as it is easier for you to keep the promises you’ve made to yourself.

A new year means a fresh start; it’s an opportunity to do something different, it’s also an opportunity for experience. Treat every day as a new year, make every day different than the day before and don’t allow your downfall form last year take place in this year. Have a wonderful and blessed New Year guys and remember this year is your year, live it and make the most of it.