ORDER!!! (PART TWO)

This week, we shall continue on my thoughts about order, and I hope it would be most positively empowering for you.

ORDER YOUR LIFESTYLE

This is one area of our lives that most of us overlook or take for granted. I can't count the numerous times I've entered a new year with high hopes of changing my life and never really getting round to doing so. I'd say I must do this and this and this and this...to ensure my life is different this time around. I'd want to be healthier and fitter yet I can't get myself to be moderate about my eating habits or endure enough to carry out the little exercises that can help my cause. I constantly get into trouble because of the kind of company I keep, yet am not willing to make the hard but positive decisions to break free from that stronghold because of whatever misplaced loyalties I may have.

A good life isn't lived carelessly. A productive life isn't arrived at haphazardly. Careless living is dangerous and has impaling effects. Get a journal or a diary and list out properly what you really want to deal with or achieve this year. Schedule your life on a daily basis with little targets to be achieved and see that you do all you can to get them done. Success in one gives you the joy, enthusiasm and encouragement to want to tackle the next one head-on. Try knocking off the things your life doesn't need as much as you possibly can no matter how painful it may be. Because your life must work this year and you owe yourself that much.

Eat right, exercise well, sleep well, walk and sit properly, avoid drugs and substance abuse, drive sensibly on our roads, be careful with whom you relate...etc, etc. You get the general picture, don't you?

ORDER YOUR IDEAS

Everything we do stems out from what goes on inside our heads. And the average human brain carries loads of incredible things that can benefit thousands and millions. Ideas constantly flood our heads and minds on daily basis but only the ones that we take out good time and effort to mine out will ever amount to anything valuable or positive.

We must stop wasting this God-given ability and start using it properly. It has been severally said that ideas rule the world. So, a very good and positive idea that you have will help make your life a very worthwhile one this year. Learn to put your ideas down frequently. Learn to brood over those ideas constantly. And learn to try accomplishing something out of your ideas passionately. You never know what that seemingly small idea can do in the long run. You never know the lives it can affect positively or the institutions or systems it may be able to positively change permanently.

Transform your ideas from mere thoughts into tangible projects this year.There are many people who are copyrighting or patenting their brilliant ideas all the time. Aren't you as special and as gifted as well? Such brilliant and wonderful ideas coming from your head are called Intellectual Properties and could be worth a great fortune to you and to our world. So, don't play with them anymore.

There's great power in that head of yours. Use it well this time.

ORDER YOUR FINANCES

A lot of us are great failures at this (please, no insult intended). We are very poor with our money cum finances, yet we continually dream endlessly for higher pay plus bonuses on our jobs, for better financial rewards in our businesses, and even expect an avalanche of miracle money one way or another to just drop into our laps from God-knows where! We want to buy everything our eyes see, spend on anything our hearts seek and yet wonder why our money bleeds. We must change something about how we handle our finances otherwise we will continue to cry out every year that we are broke or that things are hard.

Don't get me wrong, am not saying that the economy isn't harsh...am saying that we can still stay afloat if only we can be a little bit more disciplined than we've being in the past. We must handle our finances better by tightening up the various leaky areas through which we've constantly be losing money. We must learn not to allow ourselves to be put under undue pressure by the need to belong, and realize that when we lose money by spending on unnecessary things or items, we end up hurting ourselves and not the people we were trying to impress by the acquisition of that new car or dress or shoes or belt or wrist watch or whatever else. I will always say this....."Why should I spend money I don't have to buy what I don't need just to impress people I don't like?"

Unnecessary pressure, I tell you. When we spend carelessly, we can be guaranteed a sure result of financial gloom and doom. It's as simple as that. There are things that we can delay from getting until we really have enough to acquire them without stress. And the best way to guarantee that we don't repeat the sad mistakes of years and times past is to simply order our finances. Get a budget prepared, my friend. Don't be afraid of it, it doesn't kill! In truth, a good budget that's well prepared and optimally adhered to can save your life a great deal in future. Through your budget, you can have concrete financial plans laid out. It will help you cut down on non-essentials and help you face only the essentials. Through your budget, you can have a very good savings plan that definitely will come in handy in the future. I will not lie to you; the little savings habit that I've been able to practice in the last ten years has yielded positive dividends. And each time I look back at what it has helped me to get, there's always that wry smile of satisfaction and achievement, as well as gratitude to God that I used my head in that matter.

In another blog post in the coming weeks, I'll do my best to outline and detail for you easy steps on how to arrange a budget that is unique to you and that will work for you. But please note that it is very necessary for you, and that it will save you loads of headache this year if you can adhere to this one little advice.