What is the first thing you need to do to make this year count?

By IDONGESIT OKPOMBOR

The first thing you need to do to make this year count is to SEE! You need a vision. There is no better way to start your year than do this.

Learn to create a picture in your mind of what you want for the year God has permitted you to see.

How do you want your life to be this year? Have you asked yourself? Can you create a picture of how you want your life to be?

What you see is what you will pursue and what you pursue is what you will get. But it all begins with vividly creating in your mind’s eye a picture of what you want life to look like this year.

This is what vision is all about.

A Vision is creating a picture within you of what you want to do, what you want to accomplish, or what you want to become.

Your vision defines your expectations within the year. Your vision at the beginning of the year gives you an idea of what you want your life to look like throughout the year.

Your vision regulates your budget. Your vision regulates your life.

You must know what you want to do, what you want to get, what you want to accomplish, what you want to become. You must know this to start your year on the right footing.

“It is the years that make your life. What you make of your year is important; it can add or subtract from your life.“

A vision is as powerful as life! The man with a vision can live unstoppable, live without limits, and live alive. The man without a vision has a life as cheap as that of a little chick with some kind of unknown and uncertain future.

To really add value to your life and your year, you must have a vision. You must first create your vision and then let your vision create you. What does this mean? It means you must fashion out what you want to do and let your entire being – spirit, soul, and body – move towards it, until it is accomplished.

Refuse Smallness!

Your vision must not be necessarily limited to your resources. In fact, your vision should be bigger than you. Stretch out to reach something bigger this year; refuse smallness!

Don’t base your vision for the year only on what you now have or what you can see. The real things we accomplish in life do not emanate from what we can tangibly see. The greater accomplishments come from what we cannot see, yet believe we can have.

If you really want to see if you can swim, why frustrate yourself with shallow water?

Include in your vision, things that are bigger than you; things that your fragile mind or that of others could easily tag ‘impossible.’ Go after them and reveal the genius in you.

See the Impossible!

If you really want to go forward this year, you need a vision of the impossible. To do the incredible, you must first dream the impossible. If you can dream it, then you can do it! Everyone could think you are mad. Well, those who dance are always thought mad by those who do not hear the music.

To really go forward this year, you’ve got to be a determined optimist. Never believe that anything you have slated out to do is impossible.

Scientists and animal experts have emphatically stated that it is impossible for the bumblebee to fly, because it has small wings and a big body. But the bumblebee does not know that; so it flies anyway!

Go after your dreams and visions for this year, even those that people say are impossible. Find a way, and where there is no way, make a way. The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going!

Develop a vision, develop a goal, and go after it!

Take Action

Take a little time to really think about what you wish to accomplish with your life in the next 12 months.

If you need help to do this, please refer to “Seven Ways To Make Your Year Count.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Idongesit Okpombor studied medicine in All Saints University College of Medicine, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He is a prolific writer and an author of several books, including the compelling SEVEN WAYS TO MAKE YOUR YEAR COUNT, an Amazon Bestseller. He is also an excellent seller on Fiverr and Upwork for Kings View Publishing House.