The roads we ply every day aren’t what they used to be anymore.
You have to get used to things changing and never going back to the way it was before. And don't get me started on how surviving the year 2020 was a huge feat. Surely there are billions of people out there who wished that things turn out different but reality doesn’t just stop being reality simply because we wish it away or does it?
Some people even had it worse than what you complain of. If only you are attentive and observant then you'd learn to appreciate the little things that flipped in your favour and pray even so for things that didn't work out.
Times like this are supposed to shape us, make us even stronger, and help us discover. Discover that our minds are our bounds and they decide our limits. No amount of damage caused by viruses or pandemics can amount to a quarter of what we do to ourselves when we dwell in so much negativity. When the mind is afflicted, other elements that make us human is deprived. And in that moment of weakness, you don’t get better unless you take the bold step and make a factory reset. Start by planting a seed of positivity and grow it into a tree of mindsets that goes deeper in its root. Unshaken even in the face of life storms.
You also need to watch out for yourself all the time, especially when you start to feel too comfortable with things staying the same or finding yourself doing absolutely nothing every single passing day. You can't fold arms and hope to harvest where you never planted. Get going. Find something doing and pour out your soul trying to make the best out of it. It may not look big now or attractive in any way, and perhaps it feels like it's no way near what people will take seriously or at any time be valued, but guess what? So is every great dream. Every great innovation. Every great invention. They are never taken seriously at first and it all started from an idea that most probably sounded silly or stupid. Fast forward to a couple of years later and they become goods of value and necessities. That’s because such persons are visionaries. They saw what no one else saw and at the time no one else was watching. Change won't wait for you and time won't either. You need to be prepared so that when opportunities come knocking you won't be caught unawares. You've got to fire up and master that momentum you need to evolve. That’s right! You need to evolve.
Do you know what adversity does? It exposes how bad you truly want something. Not just by word of mouth but by the amount of effort you put into making it possible even when odds don't seem to play out in your favour. Never stop believing. There's always a reward for an act of belief. You can only do so much for something you strongly believe in and it will always pay off. When you put in the work, with so much dedication and commitment, your dreams take form and manifest.
You can’t shape the world if you can’t change yourself. The world will change itself if every individual does their homework and makes an intentional effort every day to become better versions of their past selves. That positive change we all desire can’t be done by one person. It doesn’t work that way. It has to be an effort of the collective. It’s a shared responsibility. However, it’s easy for one person to get singled out and pointed at while the rest of us hide away from an aggressive reflection of our true selves. This is a new year, 2020 is gone and it’s never coming back. However, some of the negativities still linger, a threat to progress and development. Never let it bring out the worst in you. If you should allow it, then 2020 wins and all the sacrifices you made in the past year would have meant nothing. Evolve. Do better. Be better. Strive harder. Work smarter.
This year shouldn’t just be about surviving, you have to live!
Happy New Year wishes from ME to YOU.
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