Setting out to make 2018 work

This is a new year and we must be resolved to make it work. We must not let what is happening around us make us think this is an impossible year. It might be a tough year but we can still make the best of it. We need not compromise our dreams or abandon what we know we should do. We must consciously set ourselves up for success. We must be resolved to have a good year.

Having a good year will not just happen. We will need to have certain attitudes and embark on certain actions.

The first thing we need to have to make this year a good one is to have hope. Hope is an indispensable ingredient that we need to make this year eventful. The outlook looks tough but hope is what will make us plunge through the year and still be able to have tangible achievements. When things are looking down hope is needed to keep our heads up and see that all is not bleak-there is still light at the end of the tunnel. Hope is needed in the darkness of gloom and doom.

“Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”    Charles H. Spurgeon

Going through the year without hope is simply shooting ourselves in the foot. We are simply saying the year will not be good.

A life devoid of hope is a life of despair. Every year comes with opportunities but a lack of hope will blind us to the opportunities that will come our way to make the year good. Living without hope is sentencing oneself to a life of frustration and drudgery.

Hope is what keeps us going even in the midst of contrary and adverse situation and circumstances. The hope of a better tomorrow keeps us to keep living today.

““Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” Thich Nhat Hanh

Hope is what keeps our dreams alive. Hope keeps us moving . Hope paints a picture of the future that we desire. We need hope as we proceed into the year. Hope will make our travel through the year better.

“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.” Marian Zimmer Bradley

Hope makes us optimistic which is a needed ingredient in this the negative world that we live in. Optimism helps us see life in the right perspective so we can keep moving when others are still mopping, groaning and complaining.

“A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all — he’s walking on them.” Leonard Louis Levinson

“Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted.” Drew Deyoung

We cannot and we should not go through this year with a wrong attitude. This year can be as good as we want if we are ready to pay the price. This year will answer to what we want it to be. If we say it will be a bad year then, so be it. If we say we will live our dreams despite whatever happens, then we will celebrate when the year is over. We need to set ourselves up for a good year by having hope. Have a good year.

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