It's a Learning New Year

One would be very genuine to ask me? "Are you sure the year is still new?" Well my answer would be this... that it is new depending on what phase you are going through and how you see your life when you compare to your 2018 year goals...

• For a new parent, it's pretty new... because their sleep pattern has totally been turned into something that's way different from the norm 
• To someone who has lost a loved one in the new year, every day they wake up, they somehow carry on but on most days, they get those sad intense moments filled with pain...
• Anyone working on something is definitely going thru some new cycle of getting to familiarise with work politics and all..

As such, it is inevitable not to find days yourself in some thick situation, one that you would run out of your skin if it was possible to do so. I am currently going thru my kind of phase and it has actually prompted me to do this piece. A phase that makes me feel like, no one around me is helpful...well I don't know if I put it in the right words because they are actually doing what is required of them. And on such days it makes me wonder what the true essence of living is. 

When your mind starts to wander or predict about the future, we must do our best to shift and focus our minds on the present. Practice to notice what is happening now and let go the ideals and practice the real things. 

Sit back and accept the moment as it is. The reality now if denied, may send us into great levels of stress which if not managed, can get into depression levels... so try to be composed, sit back and reflect about the situation.  Accept it for what is is, be grateful and make the best out of it. This way, you are able to see life in a beautiful way... you are in a position to see the positives instead of the negatives that have come your way.

In this new year, I am learning to

1. Be the best version of myself as of yesterday every new day I wake up
2. Understand that I am not perfect and I can only depend on God who is perfect
3. Be patient with myself as only then, I will be patient with others
4. Learn that it is okay to be weak, to cry about losses and to wear a brave face the next morning
5. Accept that I came to this world alone and I have to go through life making conscious decisions alone as long as I will live... 
6. Create more networks as your networks turn into your net worth
7. Understand that peer pressure is a state of mind and it shouldn't destruct me as everyone has their own 'getting on train' moments. 
8. List can go on and on.... but the biggest of them all.... I am learning to understand that though we live to die, the best life is a life well lived.... and I am trying to live that good life in the moment. Not tomorrow but now. Yesterday was history and today is a gift that's why it is called present.

Thank you for reading my post. Blessed times as you improve the yesterday version of you.. Always remember that, that's the only person you should compete with.