2018!

It's 2018! Yay! And as January is the first month of the year, it represents new beginnings, new seasons, new adventures. People have been spending time setting goals, building vision boards and creating targets for the year! It's an exciting time as everybody ushers in the new year with a sense of anticipation and adventure. 

But it isn't long before we face our first challenges of the year. For some of us we have signed up to the gym but the bitter chill has kept us prisoners to our settees. For others of us, we have started a new diet but that cookie dough ice cream begged for just one taste. For me, it was simple things like not procrastinating and staying organised. Actually, I haven't even set my goals properly to be honest. I faced my first obstacle two days before new years and came down with the flu! The obstacles that we face can cause us to put things off until the next year, as we say 2019 will be better. I joke, some of us are not so extreme, at least not in January.

But I know I found myself today feeling frustrated with myself because I was not only disorganised, I was the epitome of disorganisation. So much for my poorly constructed new years resolution! But then I had to pull myself up! The year isn't over! My life isn't over. There are 357 days left of the year and how ever many days left in my life. All those days! 

I then challenged myself to not only look at my year as a new opportunity but my day as a new opportunity. I would even go as far as to say a new hour is a new opportunity. We look at each year as a new opportunity to make improvements to our personal growth, why not each day? Or even each hour? 


Eight days into the year, and we have had so many great opportunities presented to us already. We have 357 new opportunities and more to experience. What will you do with yours?