Youtubers have this tradition of posting daily videos during the festive season untill Christmas(Vlogmas).That is a lot of hard work and consistency that I must admit this guys put.Since bloggers lives matter,I shamelessly present you my blogmas article a week to christmas.
Generally ,this year has not been the best of years, the pandemic brought so much changes in most of our lives. Looking back to when the pandemic began and right now at this point in time ,I am so grateful.
This year have carried one lesson with me ,that despite anything you go through ,there is always something to be thankful for no matter what. So, I am here to remind you to be GRATEFUL, try counting the blessings you have received this year and you will be surprised . This is a gratitude post to you my readers,thank you so much for keeping up with my articles.I love you all.
I must admit that at some point I was a Bei- Lieber ( Justin Bieber fan).Funny I even posted his photo on my Facebook page seven years ago and recently Facebook had the audacity of sending me that memory. I still follow up on him especially now that he is all grown up and his music is bomb! Not forgetting that he is now married and not the young boy we all used to admire with his signature haircut .Can we talk about his dressing code now? Well ,I think he could do better.
Anyway, this piece is not about Justin, but one of his songs recently reminded me of how I should examine my inner self ; Introspection . You must be thinking its one of his songs ‘Mistletoe’ because it’s a festive season , sorry boo; you are so wrong. Is my title giving you hints already? Or you’re still scratching that head?
The number of times I have had inner conversations with myself regarding my intentions in all I do is countless. You probably ask yourself this question so many times and maybe you don’t have the right answers as to what your intentions are in every thing you set yourself to do.
I woke up one morning and clearly questioned my intentions with regards to all areas of my life; It was quite a hard question for me because there is so much that it entails.
Each one of us has something that sets our soul on fire, so do you ever take time to ask yourself what your intentions based on what sets your soul on fire are ? Or you just wake up every morning and do what you do without pausing and reflecting?
Setting your intentions straight gives you a clear picture of what your end goal is and when your intentions are good, the outcome of what you do will surely be positive.
Your intentions don’t have to be complex, but they should give you a sense of accomplishment or happiness. So ,what are your intentions?
Do you find yourselves reading those motivational books or rather listening to those random TED talks on Youtube that really slap the reality on your face of how somethings are really important, a basic thing such as sleep is deemed as so important for our well-being. I get excited reading e- mails because maybe that application you sent three weeks ago had now gotten a response and you are there hoping and praying that you are among the shortlisted applicants but to your surprise it is that site you had signed up for a decade ago that had sent its weekly mails OMG! Apparently, I get some good life lessons from a couple of sites that I once signed up for 10,000 years ago ,one of them being the Quora app.I get reminders of how sleep is quite important and how waking up early is more beneficial to once daily productivity. This usually hit hard because I’m in that bracket of people who struggle to catch sleep to a point of now branding myself and bragging to people of how I am becoming a night owl oops! You’d prolly think I work overnight. I am the type of people who would even get to bed at 10pm and convince myself that I really need to catch some early sleep, but would still be up five hours later trying to “catch” that sleep. I am made to understand that sleeping early and at the exact time is quite effective and trust me I still struggle to do that in as much as I know of its importance. The thing with staying up late for some people ,is the fact that you will have to wake up so late to a point of feeling so useless and begin questioning your productivity.
Image from The Boston Globe.
You see, despite reading all those e-mails and sites that speak of how sleep is important, I am still the same old me who tends to sleep quite late and still wake up late at times {I think my problems wake me up nowadays ha-ha}. This applies to every other thing that we tend to set ourselves to do after getting the motivation from books,blogs,speakers but still hold ourselves back and fail to do whatever was intended. I am made to understand that change starts from the mind {more of a shift in your mindset} and when you finally make a decision to do something ,you really have to fully make up your mind about it. I guess for me to start sleeping early as planned, there is need for a change in my mindset !!
No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good…she took long naps, never got old, and didn’t have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming. — Olive Green
TEACH HIM INITIATIVE. 