Renewed

I dare you not to write down resolutions this year

Hear me out before you crucify me

The greatest mistake we make at the beginning of each year is running hard but not running smart.

We sweat and rush to the gym and use money that will eventually result as wasted simply because we stop suddenly sometime in March and gain whatever we were trying to lose in moments. We cut out several people we have labelled toxic in our lives and don’t add any people of value so end up posting bitter messages about how the world is horrible and that we’re surrounded by fake people and next year guess what your next post will be about: focusing on me.

We start a million side businesses and end up broker than ever because we didn’t really plan for it. We end up overexerted, over exhausted and lonely and also filled with such disappointment in self because we haven’t done even half of our list. Our energy gets depleted and zeal for committing to this list of seemingly good tasks leaves and bam- you’ve arrived. Where? Exactly where you were on 31.12.19.

A rat can easily locate cheese without noticing the trap it’s in. Don’t be quick to run to what you think is a good goal without the main thing: Vision

Take time out and not just look back but look forward in entirety- what vision do you have for your life, your family, your purpose, your impact. Once you have realigned your vision and written it on the scroll then what you need to be doing becomes clearer and the reason which is the fuel for running gets a source.

And your vision for life doesn’t have to be a whole fifty-page manifesto, it could be a simple sentence. But it must be present. Your vision is linked to why you were put here on earth.

And your vision should be about more than just you. Why? Simply because that is narrow sighted one track minded and just too small. The greatest impact in life is not what one has done for themselves but for others and the world at large. What is the fingerprint that the world is going to have of your life once you are walking on the golden streets?

Also have a vision for your family and friendships. Where do you see your family- not just in terms of finances or quality of life but all round. As a lady I have a vision for my future home- the type of home I want to create- a place full of love and joy where the presence of God is evident and everyone who comes through it leaves blessed.

I also have a vision for my future marriage… that I’ll not share here but dear future bae it’s going to be an epic lifetime.

A vision for your career, I have a running joke with a friend who has been working over the Christmas holidays for the past two years consecutively. While sending Christmas greetings I just add- be worse at your job next year and then maybe you could finally get a break. She has been seen to be excellent in her workplace, not just a mediocre employee but exemplary.

Do you just want to catch a cheque each month or be valued where you’re planted? How you execute your daily tasks speaks to your vision. Life isn’t a game with new characters with each level- we will most definitely meet the same people severally in life imagine if they encountered us while we were visionless and doing the least? Your life includes your career- have a vision for it.

A vision for your friendships, yes boo. People are not chess pieces that you pick and drop depending on how it benefits you. Place a value on people hun. Have a vision for your friendship circles- the people around me know I want them all to be great because I want to use their names to get into places eventually. Lol. Once you have a vision for your friendships you’d be surprised how you won’t consistently be engulfed by the rhetoric of fake, toxic friendships that you have to end each year. And you also won’t be preaching the nonsense of it being lonely at the top.

A vision for your health, I want to be a hot grandma. That’s my health goal, to be so fine at 80 that my grandkids have to tell people I’m not their older sister. A ‘fine Cucu ting’. A health vision may include stopping some hereditary diseases and maintaining a well state of body, mind and soul.

Don’t run like a rat to cheese this year with the cliché (drop the toxic, hustle harder, get in shape) nonsense we spew out each year and instead run intelligibly, with vision and heavenly direction.

Yes heavenly, a renewed mind has a renewed perspective. If you want to mess up even with a clear vision- do it on your own terms boo. Go ahead and try it. Consult God only in times of trouble and let me know how that works for you. I’ve tried that and it’s horrible, we end up as

hamsters in a turn wheel making zero progress and what ever progress we make is done so painstakingly. In all your ways seek His Will in your life. Let Him lead and in the words of Bishop Oginde: stop struggling!

Don’t hit the ground running nowhere- not knowing where on earth you are going. I don’t mean tomorrow or by December 2020 but in life. It’s time to do the first thing that we probably have done in December 2019 but honey the grace is sufficient for all of us. Take time and don’t write resolutions but a vision on the scroll so that the herald may run with it.

As for me, I refuse to be a hustler chasing everything that looks good and pushing and forcing my way. I refuse to be busy aimlessly and yield no long-term fruit.

Walking into 2020 with a Renewed Vision.

Dear World- we’re coming in HOT!