Intentional 2021

 

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2021.

This will just be business as usual, usual days and year, normal times unless you change your mindset. This is where you will begin winning.

Whether you wrote your resolutions or not, I hope you find this year to be successful as you desire. And, most importantly, this year is when you purpose on being intentional. Intentional on leaving your mediocre ways of life, settling for less than you deserve, and pushing yourself to be who you were created to be.

I hope you will not settle on the past. Last year will be written down in mankind's history but the events should not allow you to be crippled with fear for you to stop living. Rise above and focus on your goals. Do not focus on past victories. This will fill you with pride and ego while making you feel settled and not push yourself to more victories. It is gone, create more victories.

Realize, you cannot save the entire world. Do not carry the whole burden. Do what you can, go home and rest.

Do not doubt yourself for a single day. Do not doubt your beauty, worth, and resilience. You are just enough the way you, stop breaking your backs to fit into someone's lives. Do not force yourself where you are not needed. Learn when to fight and when to walk away.

After all, is said and done, the family is important. Be intentional in being present for your children. Stop being an absentee parent who gives a present to fill the void. Be the present. Learn your children, create memories, and love them. You are their first teacher.

Create time for your spouse, let go of the stupid egos we hide behind. He should call first, he should forgive first, she should understand me first and sacrifice for us. Love that man, love that woman. Rewrite your love story and change your narrative.

Stop pretending to be all-loving because the children are going back to school and once they are off your house is a battlefield. Don't be hell-bent on always being right. Fight from the same camp and not against each other.

It is going to be a busy year, rebuilding and picking up pieces from what has been termed as a lost year. The screams and voices will be too loud but take time to rest and be in touch with yourself. Learn to listen to the voice of your body on when to stop, refresh, or go on. 

Live every day, not when there is plenty or when having hearty laughter. Truth is, some days you will feel like the world is fighting you, but still live. Do not wait for the perfect moment to enjoy life. Do it every day.  Now is the perfect moment.

Stop being stagnant with life. Push yourself out of the comfort zone. Read a book. In this year, stop with minimal prompts, the likes of mmmhh, ahaa, wow because you cannot contribute to a conversation. Read a book, not just Facebook, grow intellectually. Grow in a changing world. Learn a new skill. Build yourself.

Stop having a boring life. Enjoy it even solo. Break the routine, get in touch with the child in you, laugh like crazy, climb the mountains, dance in the rain, travel. Do not wait for others to define you and what an exciting life should be. Define it by yourself but by all means, enjoy life.

Connect with the supreme spiritual being to guide you. Stop leaving life as if you own your life and it is the alarm that wakes you up.

In 2021, write your own story, you have every day to do so. Change the narrative from I cannot to I am damn capable of doing so. From I am not fitting to I was created to stand out