Are you prepared for NEW beginning ?

"New year : a new chapter , a new verse , a fresh start or just the same old story ? 

Ultimately we write it , the choice is ours ."

The beginning is most important part of the work and today is the first day of the rest of your life. You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. So before running into new year and starting the fresh journey, just sit with yourself for sometime and try thinking and analysing the following points so that you can create and plan a stronger future as "What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year ":

1. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present: 

Just spend sometime thinking, analysing and learning from the past. Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with parties, with food, with friends, with alcohol, with drugs or with work but eventually , it will ooze through and stain your life as all these are just external means to distract your mind from hurting things that happened in past. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, the experiences, the failures and make peace with that and it all starts from within, just sit with yourself and become aware of it, accept it, forgive it, learn from it and release it. To forgive and to release it does not mean to forget it rather it means not to carry any bitterness in you because that destroys your life and trust me it is very simple once you decide to face and absorb the truth and reality as it is. 

This is the first and foremost step before making a new beginning. Last year has been one of the challenging years of our lives due to covid-19 pandemic. Just go through my blog "The advent of covid-19 pandemic in college life." if you wanna be peaceful about last year challenges. 

2. Focus on the Present Moment: 

Focus on living fully in present moment. Don't let your whole life be "I will be happy when......". Realise deeply that the present moment is all you ever have and make NOW the primary focus of your life. In reality time is like a river, every past is still in present and also the future somehow depends on present, so one who has mastered to live in present reaches the destiny like that of a river finding its own way to Ocean. We need to live more in the present moment, living in the moment is also called mindfulness is a state of active, open, intentional attention on present. So do the best you can until you know better and then when you know better, do better. Abraham Lincoln has rightly said that "The best way to predict the future, is to create it" and you can create it only in the present moment. 

3. Be curious for your future and plan accordingly:

 

"The life in front of you is far more important than the life behind you." 

Now just repeat these lines as you read:

 I am not my past, 

I am not my mistakes, 

I am not my failures or successes, 

I am who I choose to become, 

I am who I decide to become, 

I am who I COMMIT to become, 

I COMMIT to become the best I can be, 

I forgive, 

I move on, 

I enjoy my life as it is, 

I look forward to the new me, 

MY BEST IS YET TO COME. 

Suming up altogether: 

After analysing and patiently following and understanding the above three steps, 

YOU there, 

The one reading this now, 

I want you to do something 

     😊 S M I L E 😊

because you are beautiful, 

because you are amazing, 

because you are unique, 

because you can do anything, 

because today is a new beginning , a fresh start, 

no matter what the circumstances and past you have , you can always make a brand new fresh start,

 because they merely determine where you start, not where you CAN GO. 

so smile not because everything is good ,

but because you can see good in everything

So SMILE because you deserve it. 

I don't say that everything will just work out as it is planned but it will definitely give you right direction to start with newness, welcoming the future, focusing on the present and taking learning out of past. As entering into the new year, buckle up guys, be excited, be curious, be cheerful, be happy, be energetic, be stupid and most important don't be dead serious about life, it is just a play, so have fun and enjoy life to it's fullest potential.

At last wishing you all a marvelous life ahead.....

BEST WISHES 💖.....

DIVYA SINGH (Author)

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