How To Have A Happy New Month Indeed!

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I woke up this morning with loads of messages on my phone. The messages were everywhere – on Facebook, WhatsAapp, by text, you name it. Some people even sent messages by 12 midnight or shortly after, just to coincide with the dawning month. I guess that your phone and social media platforms have also been inundated with such posts – the happy new month messages and prayers. Sending and receiving such messages is not an issue in itself, but it becomes an issue when month in month out we keep sending and receiving such messages without any corresponding action to bring those great wishes to fruition.  While I then join tons of your friends to wish you a happy new month, on this edition, I share on how to have a happy new month indeed.  And this is in no order of importance.

Yes, its August, the eight month, with about four months to year end. In all your endeavours, have you been meeting a brick wall after all the exciting promises January and indeed the New Year brought? Have you met unexpected result after unexpected result, what some call failure, to a point that you are too embarrassed, ashamed or afraid to try again? Perhaps you are just too tired and discouraged to drop that proposal again. Well I have news for you; you have to keep pushing and trying and start again, if you got too discouraged and dropped it all. There is no substitute for hard work according to Thomas Edison, and hard work entails trying and trying again. I wish there was. I truly understand if that sounds like bad news, but truth is, that’s the truth, that’s the way life rolls. You are a survivor, so pick yourself up again and try again, and well, maybe again.

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Re-strategise. Increasingly I am understanding the need to rework our plans. While I am an advocate of hard work, hard work should also mean smart work. Are there roles you lack capacity and in the interim cannot build capacity, then delegate or sub contract depending. Lessen the weight you carry. Build teams and network more, as you make excellence your watch word.

Get a sparring partner, well maybe a close confidant, and listen more to that inner voice. Who can you run to for professional and personal counsel? I can assure you that one of quickest ways to lose it is not to have someone to cry to and on. This is especially true if you are someone destined for the top. You will have times when you just want someone to be there and allow you cry, rant, scream and break down. Someone who won’t judge or label you. Someone who can and will cheer you from the sidelines. If you have a great partner, good for you, if you have supportive family, fantastic. And if you have none, then take the bull by the horns. Look for someone who can make it happen for you. There is someone out there for you, find him or her, better still, be a confidant to someone.

And, your inner voice, become friends with it, nurture it, and be responsive to its prodding. Learn to have a ‘me time’, something some people call ‘quiet time or meditation period’. A quiet time helps your spirit, soul and body align and be one. Make no mistakes please, and I’m not in any way passing judgment, but I don’t do transcendental meditation. The point here is that you must learn to reconcile your personality in your daily pursuits.

Write down and visualize whatever it is you want to achieve. Talk about it, be excited about it, speak well of it, see yourself achieving it. Sooner than you thought possible, it will come to pass. I will be there to celebrate you. Never forget that we all are in this together and I believe in you. Don’t give up!  

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