When the clock struck 11:59 p.m. on December 31, 2024, and individuals across the globe began the sixty-second countdown descent to start a New Year, 2025, many made a New Year’s resolution (NYr).
What was your NYr?
While the future, all days, from one to the next, remains abstruse, do you think your NYr is quantitatively measurable (QM) and eminent?
A QM goal can result from weight loss/gain through calculated caloric intake, hours of workout or days of attending a gym, incrementation or diminutions of body mass index (BMI), or scale readings. NYr can result from masterfully completing professional quarterly goals and projects exceeding client expectations. Comprehensively, most fail to understand the quantitativeness of people, persons that are beneficial to your life or detrimental. In every new year, in every day, second, minute, and hour, you will be forced to people purge. You may even find advantages in acquiring new affiliations while losing others. To elevate in life, you must eliminate the crabs in the barrel that continue to try and drag you down. These are only selfish persons and individual thinkers who may ostensively fail to realize that if you altruistically allow others to stand on your back to reach newer and rewarding heights, it will only result in them lending a helping hand to help you; the bold and brave get to where they are striving to be. However, the issue is determined by weight and circumferences.
A man or woman cannot pull another man or woman up if they continue to bear unnecessary weight or the weight of others.
Measurable goals are anything you deem computable, a personal improvement only you can decipher, and one that does not warrant the validation or confirmation of others. That said, you should never allow others to set your personal goals, let alone tell you what your NYr should be or even monitor it. Your NYr and life goals should only be set by you and only you, regardless of whether they are set before, at the onset, or amid any new year. These are accomplishments that only you can fulfill without the aid of someone else.
Unfortunately, QM does not comprise of you requisitely or compulsorily signing up for a gym membership, mainly because nothing suggests you will indeed “go to the gym” to improve YOUR health and overall well-being.
I have personally witnessed others go to the gym simply to “show up,” only wanting to opportunistically present to others and letting them think they are working on their mental, physical, biological, and physiological health.
If you immerse yourself in trying to fulfill your NYr, you must ask yourself a viable question: will you be able to determine progress and personal altitude after a while?
Is your QM goals something that will result in you changing for the better, namely for yourself and not necessarily for others?
The more important question of the final seconds of the year should have resulted in you deciding what you planned on leaving in 2024 and which life situations and circumstances would simultaneously transition from one second to the next, stepping into a new year. Who and what will you leave behind? What will you sacrifice at the transient moment, that will result in your eliminating unnecessary baggage? Ephemerally, pastimes are moments no one can ever get back, as they will only be memories. So, when the transitory period presented itself, going from 11:59:59 p.m. on 12/21/2024 to midnight on 01/01/2025, that narrowed second should have been the most meaningful and intentional.
At the onset of the New Year, these were moments when individuals passionately kissed persons they could spend the rest of their lives with. They were given the advantage of kissing the persons they loved dearly and wholeheartedly, without prejudice or mystification. They hugged and cheered with perfect strangers, nameless individuals they may never see again. Some popped the most expensive bottles of champagne or drank sparkling juices and everything in between. For me, and I am sure for some others, they slept through the New Year. In the boldest cases, some never lived to see the new year.
To all the people in the world, whether you celebrated the New or not and regardless of if you made an NYr. I hope and pray that this year is filled with positive changes, prosperity, reflections, new connections, remembrances or memorable moments, and lessons learned from previous years and experiences and years to come.
Life is short, and too often, we become too wrapped up in ourselves, never realizing that the only we strive and thrive in life is by standing on the shoulders of others and engaging with others who are not only smarter than the average bear but possess intelligence, integrity, resilience, wit, perseverance, and fortitude.
A new year has been significantly integral to others for decades or even centuries. The centrality of a new year is others hoping and wishing they will become a year older. But most fail to realize that some never reach that accumulative year that the new year has to offer, whether it means becoming a year older or a better you. Instead, their lives are short-lived. Aforethought for the new year is to hyperfocus your thoughts and emotions on the prospect that we live by the second and that every minute, hour, or day is not promised to anyone. When you are called home, there is nothing you or anyone can say or do to change your Lord and Savior’s decision. His decision is final. And although you may question it, he does not owe you an answer. This year, focus on being hopeful and live a life where your choices and decisions will be affectively positive. Never allow any person to interrupt your inner peace and tranquility.
In the new year, regardless of whether you live up to your NYr, know that you are the only person you should hold accountable. Never respond to naysayers or negativity. Never allow anyone to take you out of character. You are perfect in your own way and deserve to live the life you wish to live. You deserve change for the better, especially as it is not to the detriment of others. While it is inevitable that you cannot avoid negativity on all fronts, know that negativity fuels life fires, causing individuals to positively thrive and flourish in life.
Know that their radiating uproars demonstrated to others their heightened levels of insecurity and uncomfortableness around you. These individuals crave your attention or even the attention of others, meaning they seek validation from others due to a lack of self-validation.
In the new year, be intentional with your time and efforts because everyone is not worthy of your time and attention and does not warrant a response, as your silence is voluminous.
During the New Year, please maintain your emotional intelligence or quotient (EQ or EI), as it will supersede any noise or chaos thrown in your direction or placed in your path. Know that in this new year, 2025, you are worthy, and if no one has ever spoken highly of you before, I am here to tell you that you are beautiful. You are worthy.
You are a precious gem.
You are unique, and no matter how much people try, they can never imitate or duplicate you, and no one will ever be able to make your positive energy, especially the kinds that have developed a reputation of being contagious where every time someone sees you, or you walk into any room they smile.
So, I say to all, Happy New Year.
Welcome to your new beginning.
Welcome to your new story.
Welcome to your new chapter in life.
May your New Year be filled with love, peace, prosperity, grace, joy, and self-care.
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Au'Pearce 