Your 2016 is in your hands.

What we usually all do on New Year′s Eve is to wish people that are important to us all the best for the next 12 months. Have you ever been thinking of the true meaning of the verb "to wish" and what it implies? Merriam Webster tells us that to wish means to want something to be true or to happen. It can also mean to have a desire for something that is often unattainable. Ouch! 

Now let′s try to confront it with what psychologists call locus of control. Locus of control represents the extent to which individuals believe they can control events affecting them. Wikipedia tells us that individuals with a strong internal locus of control believe events in their life derive primarily from their own actions: for example, when receiving exam results, people with an internal locus of control tend to praise or blame themselves and their abilities. People with a strong external locus of control tend to praise or blame external factors such as the teacher or the exam.

Which of these is your case? Are you wishing for things and then wait for them to miraculously happen for you? Or do you take command and push forward so that what you wish for become reality, believing that you have what it takes to make your dreams come true? 

Instead of wishing you all the best and luck in 2016, I ask you to think of what you really want in life and to make it your 2016 goal, not wish.  A goal is much powerful than a wish as it represents the result that a person not only envisions, but also plans and commits to achieve.