New Year Resolutions

Hello,

Welcome to the new year, welcome to 2020.

Like all new years before this, you may or may not have a new year’s resolution. If you did have a resolution for the year 2019, did you achieve the things you set down to? If you did achieve them, congratulations!!! 

If like me you didn’t achieve all that you set out to, please gather here for a group hug.

If you didn’t achieve any goal at all...breathe.

I do know that life happens, challenges occur, curve balls and down times are a thing. If you did experience any life changing setback in 2019, please share with us on how you were able to bounce back.

2019 was a significant year for me, moving away from a 9-5, trying new paths, and being flat out broke.To be very honest, my biggest support came from family. Understanding that I was at this difficult place, knowing that I was trying to find my place, not talking me down or placing a pressure to achieve. I was already under pressure from the goals that I had set out for myself at the beginning of the year, from ‘adulting’ in general. From being owed monthssss of salary, to not getting an academic scholarship I applied for, to numerous job applications.

2019 was the year I understood the concept of using money to make money, and boy…

Top Five (5) New Year Resolutions

You want to glide through 2020 hassle free? Here are good resolutions for the new year as you start 2020:

Mental space: It’s easy to get caught up in the demands of life and all that you set to achieve. When things don’t go the way you plan or expect and are faced with frustrations? Pause. Breathe. Be positive. Remind yourself of how capable you are. Protect your mental space. Let go of anything and anyone that does not give you peace. Cut off triggers. Be it a thing or a person, especially an unrepentant person. Get yourself out of situations that trap you, stress you, or make you feel insignificant. You are more.

Take proper care of your health: I think the ‘health is wealth’ mantra has been underrated. Ensure to take proper care of your health, of yourself! If you don’t take care of your health, your body, you see all that money saved up? It will vanish before your eyes in the form of hospital bills. Eat good food, and exercise your body. Go for medical check-ups, take breaks if you need to and when you have the opportunity to.

 Have a backup plan: Ladies and gentlemen, if you live in Nigeria, it is important to have at least two streams of income. This is not a drill!!!! If you were contemplating taking that side job, or starting that side business, or second full-fledged business, sweetie, I am your confirmation. Don’t place all your eggs in one basket, like I did with my job at the beginning of 2019. Lmao!

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Cultivate a proper savings culture: This is very important. Companies like PiggyVest make it possible for us to adopt a savings culture. ‘PiggyVest is a very secure online savings platform that makes saving possible by combining discipline plus flexibility to make you grow your savings’. As much as we want to ‘chop life’, make we save make life no swallow us after. An easy way to save is to attach specific goals to the money that you’re saving, with that you can keep track.

God: Yeah…Can’t go through the year without God. A hymn writer said ‘o what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.’ Make God an important part of your year. Tell him about your plans, about your everyday life and I assure you your year would be better. God loves you and wants the best for you, he is more willing to lead you than you are willing to be led. Leading seeks you.

Bonus New Year Resolution Tip:  Have free time on your hands or just looking for a new experience? I suggest volunteering. Volunteering has opened me to a world of possibilities and introduced me to communities and cultures I didn’t know existed. Now, I’m not saying pack up and go into a remote area or anything like that. There are many fields to volunteer in, education, health care, social development, infrastructure, environmental care, gerontology etc., you just might find a space to breath, get a little dirt on your hands, impact lives, socialize and learn new things.

I hope you have a beautiful 2020. Happy New Year!