KNOCK KNOCK………2012 IS NEAR

The year is drawing close to an end and 2012 is knocking at the door. I’ve got a great feeling about this year but right now I have mixed feelings as to what the year holds for me. In my mind I am well aware that the coming year would only produce whatsoever I put in it, like they say you reap what you sow.

Here lies my dilemma, I have tried to strategize for the coming year knowing it going to be a great one but I loose the strength to sit down and strategize, write out goals, map out a concise plan (I could go on and on) but here I am with a note pad and a pen, I know what I want but my expression fails me. Time is ticking, ticking got just 288 hours left in 2011. It seems like a lot of time but if look closely it is not exactly. Was the complaint of my colleague some days ago.

This was my gracious reply;

For every journey you need a road map and this is what a goal can be simply referred to as; a ‘road map’. May be settling down to map out the coming year seem a bit of a task, but let’s take it from this perspective imagine yourself in the new year being carried away by all sort of events, missing on opportunities because you were not prepared for it. Life is like a boat taking a sail on the sea and if the captain does not take charge of the boat, it may sink or something terrible may occur.

You are the captain of your life and you can inspire yourself to make the right decisions that would make a change in the life you have now and the life you want to live, I must shortly say the there is a gap between the life you live now and the life you want to live. How can I bridge this gap? He said. My reply was by setting practical goals in simple term you don’t need to go all grammatical (lol) your goals are not defined by your grammatical rambling but in the simple words or sentence mapping out the course through which your boat would sail.

Well that discussion ended well as my colleague walked out grinning from ear to ear  are you in such a fix I guess this would be of tremendous help to you.

I am looking forward to the New Year are you?

Naija Ready Writer: SOUL FOOD

Naija Ready Writer: SOUL FOOD: Every day as I awake I am overwhelmed at the quantum of work I’ve got do. Take a ride with me, to see how my day has been of late; Wake u...

SOUL FOOD

Every day as I awake I am overwhelmed at the quantum of work I’ve got do. Take a ride with me, to see how my day has been of late;

Wake up at 6: am, (Omg i woke up 30 mins late), my next lines are ‘thank you Jesus for making me wake up this morning in my right state of mind’ (I think cuz all these things to achieve in a day sometimes drives me nut) continuing in prayer I say ‘Lord keep and guide me help me make the right decisions, so help me God’ IJN. I hit the shower and whoosh the day has begun. Till I come back to my room exhausted, struggle to take shower and jumping on bed immediately transiting to a world where nothing mattered.

Well that was me a week ago, having to share myself with my books, myself and doing things I love to do (like I am doing now). Being a final year student in a school where deadlines have to be meet, impromptu tests  which I can’t afford to mess up (heavens knows I need my grades up), seemly unnecessary assignment (they would help  my grades so am all for it lol..), having to deal with strategizing for what I want to do with my life after bagging a B.Sc. , keeping up with eating right cuz I’ve lost a lot of pounds and most importantly having time to fellowship with my Heavenly Father who has done nothing but to love me unconditionally and en-grace me as well.

To get out of this mess, I consumed what I have termed ‘soul food’, I know you are wondering what this is about so let me break it down. Soul food means to seek out the things that give you utmost concern and drawing out a plan to attend to these things. When I realized this, I made a list consisting of my final year project, my academic study, career (this is different from what I am studying in school), resting periods, eating well (got to gain some pounds), value adding time (to myself of course) and communing time with God the one I cannot do without through bible study, prayer and praise. Oh you must think, I got it all together immediately. Nope! My consistency was tried and the days I did not achieve much rather than engage in self-condemnation I arose and picked up the next day.

 For me it is no longer pursuits with exhausion, its pursuits with rest and by His grace it’s gonna be that way.

Take a bold step; try this because you’ll be better for it.