NEW YEAR; NEW ME

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  Hello; it has been a while hope you have been well.   It’s the New Year and for the first time in a while, I didn’t see any new year new me statuses. Have people given up on changing their lives? Or are we overwhelmed by the state of the world which seems to not be changing?  In our capacity, we cannot change the world but what we can change is our look at life. We set targets for new year’s resolutions but we rarely ever get to attain a satisfactory result at the end of the year. The reason for this is we always procrastinate for example I have been thinking I need to lose some weight so I have been thinking of the diet when I asked when I plan to start it I said the 10th and knowing myself I will keep procrastinating. So because we do not start the year on the right footing we set ourselves up for failure. So in the same way, if we wish to succeed in any of our targets, plans let’s start on the right footing. Gregor Moniuszko wrote on Thrive Global that “By start...
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Timeline Expectations

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 As I get on in age, I am noticing the timeline expectations imposed on us by ourselves.  I am sure dear reader, have at one point in time heard this statement said (you are (a particular age) and you do not have a job, child or a spouse). Who was it that said life events like the ones I previously mentioned have a timeline? 

 I need to meet this person and ask them what form of measurement they used to determine the optimum timeframe to reach a particular life stage.  To say I am upset about this issue is an understatement because we have people who are not mentally, emotionally mature for certain things going out to do them.  Life is not a race; it's not a test written in a particular timeframe, even in an exam there is a student who walks out before it ends and there is one who doesn't finish. 



Life comes different to everyone because our journeys in life are different. As Margaret Mead says "Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.”  You are a unique person; identical twins do not have the same characters. Your fingerprint is unique to you so there is absolutely no way your life will be the same to anyone else. So I do not subscribe to life timelines; my life isn't a fictional creation of man; it is a master creation of God. How do you timeline that? Who are you to timeline that? So let us not buckle under the timeliness imposed by man. I think the perfect response to the dreaded statement is Gods plan is beyond human comprehension. 

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  1. Unknown23 February 2021 at 09:36

    Powerful indeed....Am unique indeed!

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  2. Unknown23 February 2021 at 09:42

    Very very true that it why some people make haste damaging decisions

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  3. nikki23 February 2021 at 09:52

    stop putting unnecessary pressure on people

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  4. QS23 February 2021 at 10:34

    Articulate summary to the article ,see if you can push this one further afield, its very good

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