Welcoming 2021 !!!

 Welcoming 2021 !!!

⏳HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR to all !!!  Despite the gloomy exit of 2020 followed closely on the heels by the muted start of 2021, a new year is always a milestone which humanity never misses to celebrate.  From Sydney Harbor where the New Year countdown creeps in first to New York City's Time Square, a new year always ushers in lots of hope and optimism across our global communities.  Not even the Covid pandemic can dampen that hullaballoo to come out with the loudest decibels of celebrating every new year.

And when our calendar resets and refreshes, surely you will  be checking to refresh your Windows O/S for updates, right ?  How about us, ourselves ?  Shouldn't we refresh and update ourselves ?  Can't we have the latest version of ourselves ?

Regardless, we owe it to ourselves, to our families, to our loved ones and even to our workplace colleagues that we come out with the latest VERSION UPDATE of ourselves.  A new version that will be an improvement of the last version that we were able to offer. Where there bugs in that version ?  Will you introduce new functionalities, new features ?  Isn't it a given that when the new year ushers in, the latest version of you gets released in your 'REFRESH'

Despite the gloominess brought about by this global pandemic, as the old adage goes, when you're down, there's no other way to go but UP ! And getting stalled by almost a year now by the harsh realities of this pandemic, the early stages of panic seem to have simmered down, especially since the medical experts and frontline health personnel have collected enough domain knowledge to manage and control of reported cases that seem to push the defenseless citizenry to the very edges of the precipice.

When all the marbles are on the line, do we think that we were already at our best last 2020 ?  Sure not ?  I'm sorry dude.  Let me bluntly confront you that whatever you were last 2020 was not the best of you which you can offer to yourself, to your family, to your workplace colleagues.  Probably you have gained enough knowledge and skills by now.  Probably, your knowledge repository is filled at the rafters and probably about to overflow.  

But what if I don't mince my words and confront you straight to your eyes: YOU KNOW SO MUCH BUT YOU HAVE DONE SO LITTLE [to date].  If that sounds relevant to your situation as it is now, can you do as much as all the knowledge you have at hand by now ?

The late Nelson Mandela, South Africa's famous apartheid revolutionary who later became its President for 5 years way back 1994 said:  NO PASSION IS TO BE FOUND PLAYING SMALL AND SETTLING FOR A LIFE THAT'S LESS THAN WHAT YOU ARE CAPABLE OF LIVING.  In a nutshell, Mandela implies here that it is unfathomable and unacceptable if all the efforts you exert in life are less than what you can exert.  And if you are angling for something you never had, you have to do something which you have never did to date.  There are no IFs and BUTs to that.  That's just non-negotiable.

And while you yourself is your worst enemy, naysayers are like land mines.  They are obscurely planted all around you.  And if and when you are the first person to shoot your foot down and declare that you can't do it, trust me, YOU WILL GO DOWN that drain faster and even ahead of the flushing.  In short, you become what you just said.  Your statement becomes what you said.  As a ground rule, if you wanna rest, put that off till the next tomorrow.  That could be tell-tale signs that you need some time off BUT DON'T TAKE THE DAY OFF now, not yet anyway.  DON'T give in to that immediately gratification that whispers through your ears.  Let those hollowed words pass-through your eardrums, period.  Two cornerstones you need now:  COMMITMENT and CONSISTENCY.  Without COMMITMENT, you can't start.  Without CONSISTENCY, you will never finish.  And what could be your most serious threat to progress than hardship ?  It's that reckless inclination to take things at EASE, at your own leisurely pace. ⏳