A person who gets lost in a dark forest waits with great hopes that the sun comes and saves him! And a person who gets lost in the gloomy days of a dark year also waits with great hopes that the New Year comes and saves him!
— Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish novelist
I get all excited every year that THIS is the year that I am going to be a good girl and get my New Year’s resolutions all met. So here goes, I hope this year I see it all through!
My first resolution is to worry less and do more. Worry is the interest that you pay on a problem you don’t already have, so why even go there, right?
I have learnt to just trust my instinct and do what feels right, so for 2023, I am going to go full throttle on that. Let the universe guide me in all my decisions and I allow myself to be a channel or conduit of divine guidance.
I will fill every minute with 60 seconds of distance run — I will not allow myself to get weak and think I need to ‘slow down’ or ‘find a balance’. In fact I will stop reading or watching all those info that claims we need to sleep eight hours a day and instead switch on to what my body tells me I need.
If I only need four hours of sleep to function, that’s the way my body rocks and rolls, and I will go with that and not feel I need to force eight hours of sleep just because some people and their supposed studies says so.
In the last few years, I have seen how wrong the ‘healthcare’ industry has been with almost everything and my faith in ‘experts’ and ‘settled science’ is at an all time low. So I am just going to trust my instincts by worrying less and doing more.
My second resolution is to not lose my cool no matter what. This means no more arguing with idiots over situations that I have no control over, no matter how stupid their arguments are. I just back off from the argument and let them go on and on while I focus on what really matters to me — my work, and my strategies to make a better life for myself. So much more productive.
Winning an argument mean so little to me in the context of actually doing something that makes a difference to my life.
I also will not let stupidity or incompetence bother me as they always have had… I will try to tell myself that I will allow people their moments of vague haziness and be as patient as I can in explaining to them — for perhaps the hundredth time — how things work.
When people are rude to me, or deliberately try to egg me on, I shall see through the ruse of them trying to get me to react and I will give them exactly the opposite of the pleasure — by not reacting. I shall be Ms Cool herself and save myself unproductive energy that comes from losing one’s temper.
My third resolution is to start disciplining myself on food intake, sleep routines and exercise — for a exceedingly focused mind and body experience. I plan to eat as little as I really need to, and to avoid my go-to comfort foods that are sweet, processed and meaty and start eating really light.
I hope to go full vegetarian by end of the year. I want to wake up earlier than anyone else by 3am so I get a head start on life itself and start the day by meditating, and then going for a walk and a jog before starting the day. I want to ensure I do my strength training for at least three times a week and also include swimming and martial arts in between this routine.
My body should become a lean, mean, toned and perfectly aligned machine, and I will not let my mind tell me that it cannot keep up. My mind is a just a product of its subconsciousness and it always screams out bad habits it has learnt from watching scenarios around me.
I will not allow weakness of others dictate its learning of social and human behaviour. In fact, I will teach it what I learn from listening to my instincts.
My fourth and final resolution will be to make as much big money as I can so that I can be independent of worry or fear due to lack of it. I will be a juggernaut of ambition and drive and I will keep strategising and moving and driving my team until I can get them all to ‘the promised land of milk and honey’. My objective is to ensure my clients have the utmost faith is us and recommend us to their peers.
I would like my three new ventures to lift off beyond my wildest imaginations — IBR international editions, Borneo Awards and LIMA Awards. It’s going to be a glorious year, indeed.
The views expressed here are those of the columnist and do not necessarily represent the views of New Sarawak Tribune. Feedback can reach the writer at beatrice@ibrasiagroup.com
