You Are Capable of More than What You Bargain For; Stop Limiting Yourself #NewYear2025

Dear Young People,

As the New Year Dawns, everyone is in a heavy Vision Board and New Year Resolutions mood which is GREAT but is it truly ENOUGH? Like many of you, I also enjoy the prospect of peering into the future and aiming to set new/improved trajectories for myself as I embark on every passing year in the Gregorian Calendar. However, I know that in order to actualize what I’m envisioning, I must FIRST believe that I can actually have it and experience it and operate as though I already do. I must see myself as capable of MORE than what I bargain for and not pigeonhole myself thinking that something is outside of my reach when in fact, nothing really is.

How often do you let your imagination run wild and dream up the most fabulous life only to kill those dreams almost instantaneously with a host of limiting beliefs?!?! We’ve all been there; trust me! But, if it’s one thing I learnt this year, it’s that what you want is on the other side of that fear that stops most of us. I can’t begin to tell you how many new things I did SCARED, DOUBTFUL and ANXIOUS this year! For the most part, I had just to push through the initial thoughts of inadequacy and undeservedness and my inner saboteurs to unleash the phoenix that ROSE each time.

Each time I emerged, I was pleasantly reminded that there was in fact nothing that I had to fear prior. The only thing that was holding me back was myself and nothing else. I want you to stop right now and think about all the things that you truly want for your life. How many of them can you see yourself possessing? How many of them can you perceive, touch and feel as if you already had them? Wouldn’t it be great to just live that Vision Board life that you perfectly curated and physically manifested?

The major stumbling block? for most young people is our perception and notion of TIME. We’re young and vibrant but yet still we operate as though we’re pressed for TIME daily. We bolt from one idea to the next, one achievement to the next, one moment to the next without always taking the time to sit and understand just how much more life we have ahead of us. Admittedly, I also know that earthly life is FINITE. Nevertheless, it profits us north to feel as though we have to race ahead 24/7 without PAUSE, REFLECTION or REST.

As you gear up for a New Year, cease to limit yourself not only in the concept of what you can do but also in the concept of the necessary timelines with which it takes to get it done. You see, the two are connected. You achieving more in 2025 is equally hinged on the limits of your MIND and SELF-BELIEF as it is on your concept of TIME. You can achieve way more this year by approaching it in bite size pieces and not as this gargantuan whole to conquer.?

Make peace with the fact that some goals from 2024 will also spill over into 2025 as you continue putting in the efforts to actualize them. Moreover, understand the proper categorization of your goals. There are short, medium and long term. Don’t expect to fully actualize a new long term goal in 2025 if it wasn’t something that you’ve been working on prior in the years gone by. Personally, I’ve seen many successes in 2024 and I can pin every last one to years gone by of incremental works, challenges, triumphs and lessons that have crystallized in this year. Nothing happens by chance. What you achieve tomorrow is resultant and dependent on the foundations and efforts that you laid BEFORE.

Keep looking forward to and seeing MORE for yourself but also make peace with the fact that some of what you WANT will take TIME. Also, innerstand that not everything we want is what we NEED so when something seems DISTANT, it’s not always DELAYED. It can be BLOCKED for our own good but discernment to know the differences is CRUCIAL.

In this New Year, I wish you EVERYTHING that you wish for yourself and hope that you will see yourself as the VICTOR that you ARE every day. The rains and torrents will fall periodically throughout the year but don’t see this as things working against you. In fact, I believe things are always working in our best interest whether we can perceive it in the NOW or NOT. Go BIG or Go HOME but also a gentle reminder to ENJOY THE PROCESS as well. TIME is a construct. Just because something is taking its time to locate you in the right season doesn’t mean that it isn’t EN ROUTE. Keep the Faith, sometimes just a MUSTARD SEED is SUFFICIENT.

May We All Have a Blessed and a Prosperous New Year!

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