Happy New Year folks! Welcome to a new year, a new season and possibly a rewarding and very profitable twelve months for all of us. I see goodness, great things, breakthroughs and plenty, plenty testimonies on the horizon! It's going to be a good year, my friends, and I sincerely hope you're as hopeful and expectant as I am.
I bet you are. Quite a number of us have already made new year resolutions, while some of us have heard from some of our religious leaders that what we really need are new year revelations. Whether you have a resolution or a divine revelation as to how you want this year to run for you, it's all good. Our dreams matter to every one of us and achieving them is key to our fulfillment and sanity. We must achieve important goals this year, we must improve on what we accomplished from previous years. And as long as you see yourself walking up the ladder of success, that's all good.
But there's something I really need to bring to our attention here. Quite a number of us have stepped into 2015 with virtually the same mindset that we've had in previous years...the same mindset that didn't produce much for us in time past, and we just think it's all in the new resolutions and the new revelations. We probably think all we need to do is press the dream button and everything will start to fall into place.
Ehh...so sorry, but we will need to wake up from whatever sleep we're presently in and face the reality of how life really works. By now you should have realized that dreams do not automatically happen and that even after your new resolution and new revelation, something needs to be added to them for your dreams to make it out of your mind and head into the world of reality. Something so obvious and key but yet so rarely given the prized attention it deserves. It's called SELF-DISCIPLINE and we are all going to need it in greater measure this year if we are ever going to see those dreams come true.
Self-discipline will ensure that journey we've started towards our dream does not end prematurely. It's the main fuel that drives us, most times slowly but definitely surely towards our dreams. No matter how much we've jumped and shouted about our new year resolutions and new year revelations, without cultivating this essential spirit of self-control, we may as well just wave a very big goodbye to our dreams for 2015.
Having self-discipline will help us reduce our excuses. Even when things don't really turn out as pretty as we expect them to, we don't lose focus because of this one very important virtue. Self-discipline helps build our character and confidence, helps improve our responsibility rate and persistence levels, it helps us to strive steadily towards our goals, helps to give good value to our work, helps us with our leadership thrust, can improve our businesses and can also help increase how and what we earn. Self-discipline will certainly have a positive effect on how we handle our time, and is guaranteed to help improve our happiness, marriages, families and friendships....if we will all be willing to put ourselves under some more control than before. Self-discipline will guarantee success if we will just calm down and let it be our mantra and pivotal principle for 2015.
Let's not repeat this year those things that didn't give us any success in previous years. Sometimes the vision, dream or plan could be great and mind-blowing, but because self-discipline is absent all that ends up being a waste and the year itself ends up being filled with frustrations and disappointments.
It was Walt Disney who said that, "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." I believe him. Not because it's a statement that bounces off positively inside my spirit, but because he has been proven time and time over that it is true.
It was Walt Disney who said that, "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." I believe him. Not because it's a statement that bounces off positively inside my spirit, but because he has been proven time and time over that it is true.
I don't intend to be disappointed this year and so I'm ready to push my self-discipline levels up another notch in the different areas of my life that I've targeted need change. I need serious success and believe I will get it; but I will only deserve it if I'm committed to work hard towards it.
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