I know this should have come a bit earlier but it took me quite sometime to compile this list. In retrospect, 2015 was quite my best year yet; I achieved several things I always dreamt of and are proud of today, I climbed on a higher pedestal, and in all, my eyes were opened in ways I never really imagined. So I thought I should share a few of the lessons 2015 taught me here and I hope we can all take a cue from them.
1. HAVE FAITH : Faith is the key to achieving everything we've always ever desired. Faith brings meaning to our lives and gives us hope when everything seems lost. This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with being religious (it has a lot to do with it though), it only means being confident and believing all would work out for good. This is the very first step towards the successful achievement of our goals. Just like Mastin Kipp rightly put it, Faith is the magic sauce that elevates our lives from a mundane human experience to a profound and living spiritual experience as it also brings meaning to the dark times and deep joy to the good times.
2. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF : Often times we have our eyes on certain things, we aspire to reach certain goals and we just want to be like somebody who keeps inspiring and mentoring us but we just can't. We create psychological barriers for ourselves and give ourselves a thousand and one reasons why we aren't good enough to reach our goals, why the other person who succeeds at what he does is better off, why such goals are very lofty and un achievable. But the truth is when we develop a certain level of confidence in ourselves and our abilities, when we decide to tear down those barriers that are limitations to our dreams and ideas, things would only change for the better. For a while, I had issues with my self-esteem and I wasn't just sure who I really was or what I set out to achieve but the moment I began to let go of everything and consciously began to work on my confidence as an individual, things began to work like magic! Believe in yourself, even if it's the only thing you ever get to do.
3. SELF- LOVE: Literally 'love for oneself'. Now there's anything thin line that divides having love for oneself and being selfish. We should be careful not to slip into the latter. Having love for oneself simply has to do with knowing what and what does not work for you, making conscious efforts to please yourself, knowing at all times what you deserve and refusing to settle for less, and basically staying happy (the list is endless) . Even though I'm not an expert at being happy - I have my low moments too - being happy is something we shouldn't trade for anything else as not only does it serve as a means of loving ourselves genuinely, it also helps set everything straight.
4. BE YOUR FAN: You just wrote a beautiful article, posted it on Facebook and yet got a few likes, or this awesome idea you conceived at your workplace and nobody really seems to be paying attention to it? Of course, these are good enough reasons for you to feel less of who you really are, for you to get discouraged and maybe sit back to ask yourself why things never really work out. 90% of the time, things don't just start out very rosy, the difficulties, challenges and the weakening silence you would get from people whom you really need to cheer you on would definitely be there. But that's not enough reason to back out. Begin with being your own fan, your own support, your own source of inspiration, your own motivation and the one to always cheer yourself on. It did work for me at some point when I felt I was alone in all I did but the positive attitude I put on and the belief I had in my abilities was what stayed with me.
5. NEVER LET YOUR EMOTIONS OVERRIDE YOUR SENSE OF REASONING : In dealing with matters of the heart, we sometimes let our emotions do the thinking and talking for us. In some cases, what we feel might be real but it just might not be right. In whatever we do, our senses of reasoning should be the ultimate guide because letting our emotions take charge would only put us in jeopardy. I really can't find any other way to explain this in writing but I'll stress that we should 'never let our emotions override our sense of reasoning'...
These are just a few of the so many lessons I came to learn in 2015. What lessons did you learn? Please do well to drop your comments below. Thanks for reading.
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