Every 31st of December, people will be seen trooping out of churches and
mosques, greeting and hugging each other and indeed complementing each other
after appreciating God for the gift of
life ,they have in their mind the belief, that old things have passed away and
indeed new things are up to life, I reminisce about the past and tried to
figure out what the difference is, between the old ways and this new beginning,
though, the dictionary defines new beginning as recently starting something
that is different from what has been existing in the past, but I felt something
different, I looked at the difference between yesterday and today with the
realization that the major difference that exist is alphabetical, it is the
spelling that differentiates the two, we slept and woke up yesterday and the
cycle continues today with all other things being equal.
Aside the spelling, another thing that
differentiates the old times and the new beginning is the mindset, what lives
in our heart, what idea did we used yesterday and what plan do we have for the
future, certainly, the planned idea used yesterday, if not completely different
must have a slight modification, this which confirms the difference between old
times and the new beginning.
After appreciating God for the gift of
life bestowed on us in the past years, we need to gather effort in forging
ahead in the new year, we need to dust the old ideas, polish the ideas that
failed while setting out last year and project a scale of preference for the
activities that has been or that would be lined up for the new year.
Starting New Year means starting afresh,
though some part of us may seem rigid but the fact remains that effort must be
put in place to make sure that a strong difference is noticed in all our
activities. One should load in himself a bunch of fears, one should have in
mind that the future may not be as appalling as the past, hat the new year will
be a field full of thorns that if necessary care is not taken, it would leave
one a lasting wound that may discourage one from forging ahead, these
pre-thought happenings that was put in place is not to restrain one from moving
forward but they are just there to remind you that today may be better than
tomorrow and vice-versa.
When
Adeolu, an average student from one of the secondary schools in Nigeria
was leaving for the University, his parents told him that “perfection is the
child of repetition ”,that if he could change his mindset from average to
exceptional, and mastering everything that was taught in class consistently, he
would frantically rise from being a trial in class to being what any student would
want to be, days passed and with great effort, at the end of the first session
in school, Adeolu made 4.90 out of a maximum obtainable of 5.00 cumulative
grade point average. Another student that finished her secondary school in
flying colors, with possession of power and prowess to excel in the University,
after securing admission, because of her prowess forgot to draw a plan out for
the new environment, she thought she could maintain her stand as always but the
story changed not because she is not as brilliant as before but this happened
because the plan for the new beginning was not in place.
There is more to making it to the new
year than continue living life with the lifestyle used in the previous year,
spice your New year with plans and full determination so to be ahead of those
challenges that prevented you from achieving in the past.
Copyrights Jimoh Hammed Olaoluwa
July 2015
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