HOW TO RESTART YOUR LIFE THIS 2020 IN PREPARATION FOR 2021.
HOW TO RESTART YOUR LIFE THIS 2020 IN PREPARATION FOR 2021.
As 2019 was rounding off, we all wrote down goals we were so sure we were going to achieve in 2020. While the Jeff Bezos’s of this world probably crossed off 50% of their resolution list, our friendly neighbourhood COVID and Quarantine made that somewhat impossible for some of us reading this.
Here, I will show you how to restart your life this late in 2020 despite our current situation, in preparation of 2021.
I am Emmanuel from 302 MEN, I hope you are having a nice day; welcome to another Blog Post, sit tight for a wild ride.
While this is not a life hack that ensures you tick off your life goals as quick as you tick off to-do lists, this promises to help you get back on the right track to ensure you identify and seize the remaining opportunities 2020 still has to offer and start 2021 on the right foot. If that tickles your fancy, vamonos.
1. Show Gratitude: If you want to change your life and end 2020 on a good note, being grateful is the very first step. Regardless of how many boxes you still need to check in your 2020 resolution list, you can’t tell me you don’t have anything to be grateful for. No matter how bad you may have it, someone somewhere always has it worse than you and would give anything to live the life you live right now; I get it, COVID has stopped you in your tracks and has you stuck in a spot. But think of the people that contacted it, the ones that still have it, the ones that it has killed and the ones that are dealing with both COVID and Cancer or another deadly disease. You are thinking about checking your boxes, while someone else just wants to live past 2020. This is not to mess up your mood, it is just to remind you that you have so much to live for and so much more to be thankful for. Show Gratitude today.
2. Reflect on the past and evaluate yourself: The second step is to sit and just look back on your life; Reflect and identify the things you did right, wrong and the things you didn’t do at all this past year, decade or however far back you want to go that will most likely be repeated or change entirely. Accept responsibility, go back to the drawing board and make the necessary changes.
3. Be Clear about that you want: Let’s say one of your goals is to either lose or gain healthy weight, identify what weight you want to attain, the diets you want to follow and all other factors relating to your goal. Basically, all I’m saying is that whatever your goals are, be crystal clear about them, be sure they are attainable and gather as much information as you can on the subject(s) involved. When you know what you want, it can be used as your direction and it will surely help you achieve your goals.
4. Write down short and long term goals: Whether you live in a mansion or you are living under a rock, as long as you have a phone, you’ve read these words before; And as much as it has been said, it cannot be over-emphasized. No matter what your aim is in life, you need to have short term and long term sub-goals. Above all other advantages, their main purpose is to keep you motivated and help you stay on the right track. Let us go back to the weight loss or gain analogy; If you are 150kg and your target weight is 75kg over the stretch of let’s say 6 months, before you get to the main goal, have little targets per week and per month. What this does is when you reach your target for the week, it motivates you to eat healthily and work hard to attain your target for the following week and before you know it, you have reached your main goal.
5. Avoid Excuses: Let’s be honest, the biggest thing standing between you and your goals are the flimsy stories you keep telling yourself are the reasons you can’t achieve the goals. Making excuses are unhealthy and lead to irrational actions that we might most likely regret in the long run. Saying it is because of the government or your president that you are financially unstable are reasons you know deep down are not true but because they are logically reasonable, we make ourselves believe they are. If your government is the real cause of your problems, how are some other people succeeding and surpassing the line of financial stability? Instead of resorting to excuses every time something does not go your way, learn to accept full responsibility for your failure and find ways to create a solution yourself.
6. Take the first step: As the famous quote goes, “The Journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”. Just take the step. I’m not promising you a smooth ride to your dreams, but I promise, throughout the whole journey, no other step will be as hard as the first step; I know how scary that sounds, but look at it from the other side of the coin. Once you complete that first step, you have conquered the hard things first and the rest will be walkovers. Complete that first workout session, save that money, read for that exam, post that your first YouTube video, hell, even release that imperfect first blog post. Conquer the first step and watch things get easier.
7. Eliminate Toxic People and Attitudes:
There are people who break your spirit just by being them; to be honest, we all have someone like that in our lives. But if you opened this post, it means you are at a place in your life where you do not know where you are headed and you just want a clean slate; and let me tell you, letting toxic people go is a big step in the right direction. Some people are not happy with themselves now, and instead of doing something about it, they aim to make people around them feel just as bitter as they feel. In some people, that toxic trait is deeply rooted into them that they just blurt it out unconsciously, not noticing the harm they have just caused. Sometimes, it may even be You that is the toxic person in your life. On a previous blog post, I mentioned how I was learning to stop demeaning myself after certain things don’t go my way, THAT is a toxic attitude. In order to go on with this journey, get rid of every toxic person and attitude in your life; Starting from yourself, down to your family, friends and everyone around you. Like Robert Tew said, “Don’t let toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out”
8. Become your own Hype man:
Now, you’ve gotten the toxic people out of your life, it’s time to change the way you talk to yourself. Respect yourself, be your own number one fan, pick yourself up when you fall, be your own cheerleader when things work out for you, when people try to talk down at you, remind them that only YOU (and no-one else) has the power to tear you down and build you up again. When you love and respect yourself, then and only then will people start to respect you and see you for who you really are.
9. Seek advice and Guidance:
No matter what journey you embark on, there are always people who have walked down that path before you and as such have more experience than you do. Don’t be too proud to ask for help and seek mentorship in areas you know you need it the most. Mentors, regardless of the age are able to recognize and call you to order when they see that you are not heading in the right direction and can even see mistakes you never even knew you made. Pick someone you can trust, who won’t judge you, but instead will tell you the truth, no matter how bitter it may seem.
10. Be Patient and Trust the process: Finally, know that every good thing takes time. Like I said in the beginning, this is not a life hack, this is a process that requires patience and trust. If you are not ready to work hard and trust this process, no need wasting time trying this out in the first place; You just increased my blog views and liked this post [I know you want to (; ] all for the fun of it. Believe it will work for you, and it will.
We have come to the end of this post, Gentlemen. But before I end things here, I want to appreciate you all for reading this till the end; and to do that, I have a special bonus for you.
After all these are said and done and you have started the journey of finding yourself, there is one thing you should not forget to do.
Never forget to give back. Help people around you and people that reach out to you who also want to find themselves. Be someone’s Mentor. Offer pieces of advices and even share this blog post. In any way you can, endeavour to put a smile on someone’s face.
That's it from me for now, see you on Thursday.
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