You Must Blow in 2020

This is a new year (guy stop giving us old news), but one thing we must realize that though the sphere of the measure of time has changed, nothing has really changed about the world (is this guy mad? So, all of those it's a new year new system talks is what?), yes nothing has changed with the world which means the price to succeed and all still remains the same.

Sometime yesterday I was drawn to a very funny caption that read are your new year resolutions still intact or one game don cut am like bet 9ja ticket? At first I laughed, then I reflected like I always do, then I thought to myself a lot of people came in with a list of things they want to change about themselves but just 14 days into this year can your answer to the question be in the affirmative or negative. If it's in the latter then this is for you.

Most times we really want the change that we seek so much that we make resolutions of them, but that's all to the resolutions. They are nothing beyond wishes and like the old adage goes, if wishes were horses men would ride.

Let me tell you a story, I'm a guy who has  chosen a path that makes thing very busy for him hence some aspects of my life have to kind of lack for the other things I want to do, and one part of me that suffers most time is my relationship. I see people enjoy theirs and I always wished I could too but I sold myself the excuse (excuse puts it mild, I sold myself the lie should meet) that my lifestyle doesn't permit that.

At the dawn of the year, I made a resolution (let me say decision because I feel that's a stronger word) to enjoy my relationship and that won't spell lack of productivity, for the first 3 days I kept on wishing, you know what happened? Nothing, but after then I put work to it and I'm enjoying the experience.

So let's say you want a bigger finance in 2020, you want a car, or whatever attitudinal change that you want, it won't happen by just wishing. Like they say in economics, if the demand is not backed up by a strong will and purchasing power is nothing but non effective demand. So, you need (I chose this word, because you might get no where with your wants) a change, you make it happen by effectively working.

It's a new year, this new year new you thing won't work out if you don't put serious work to it. It's a new year indeed, but not a new world hence the price for success remains same, so the change you need won't be birthed by wish but by hard work.

Selah...

Tradition is a Mirage

Tradition is a Mirage

We all just got away from the yuletide feeling and getting ready to get into the drills and hustle for the new year. Well, as I've always said, there's no time in which a valuable life lesson can't be learnt, hence I present to you my Christmas story.

The yuletide is one time for some age long family traditions, most times the tradition have eaten deep into our life's ways so much that we fail to imagine the season without those traditions talk much of not doing them.

Well, I came into this yuletide season having a thought of not doing some of these traditions and I had always feared within that this would be the most boring time I'd have around this period. With that in mind, I had clear doubts but the yuletide came in and I blatantly rejected the traditions and it panned out to be one of the best I've had in years.

What does this story have to teach us, here it comes. Society have made us feel that what uphold the world is the traditions and societal norms that have been set before now but what society failed to tell us that if you want monumental success you'd have to break the traditions, norms and rules.

Traditions, norms and rules are set by folks who broke the previous ones, so why then would you be held down in this new year by a couple of archaic rules that has no business with what you're doing now. From time immemorial it has been said that it's madness to do the same thing in the same way and expect a different outcome, hence if you're to come out of 2020 better than you did 2019, you must be ready to do things differently and boldly than you did in 2019.

Traditions always have a list of failures because it keeps that as a record to dissuade any person that is trying to act differently, and don't wrongly see this as just societal norms alone as you'd be totally wrong. It most times comes in that counsel from maybe a loved one or a friend or even family. They may seem to want to protect you from supposed loss but they are also chasing you away from incoming success.

Dear one, it's 2020, hence it's time to act differently from the way you have done in previous years to experience all of your brand new expectations. Your dreams are there for the taking only if you're ready to act in favor of them in the case of which you have to break the mirage called tradition.