I put this up a year ago and discovered I had written it in 2015. 🙂 I love ‘repurposing’ blogs! How to have a successful year…

1. Begin

The number of times, I have decided to just do one little thing that will take 5 minutes and it has turned into a morning of progress. It’s just the first step that is the hardest part. The same goes for this blog. There are days when I wonder to myself what I am going to write and I sit down and just begin typing. A blog follows – often times longer than I intended. Every book begins with a single word. So just begin your project and see how it goes.

2. Set Goals

I haven’t been big on setting goals. I wander in the general direction of forward, but to be really effective I should have goals lined up. There are things I want to try to achieve. Even though I haven’t written them down, goals are always a great thing to have in mind. I now need to write them down. They keep you focused with your eye on a target.

3. Keep On Keeping On

This is the thing with life – success seldom happens overnight. There is always a back-story that we often don’t see. Think of your own life. You haven’t got to where you are today without a lot of water flowing under the bridge. A house is not built in a day. A race is not run in a moment. An adult is not grown overnight. It all takes time and the moments become minutes, which tick over to hours and days and weeks and months.
Unless you intentionally focus on what you are doing, it’s easy to have time flit away – regularly at the hands of mindless computer games or embracing the more subtle form of voyeurism – Facebook! Whatever your plans, just keep on working towards making them happen. One little step forward is one step in the right direction.

4. Dump, Delegate, Deal With

Remember the three D’s – Dump the excess in your life. Carrying around a lot of baggage is cumbersome and slows you down. Ditch what you can. If you are not coping, delegatethe stuff that you may find you don’t have time to do or are tasks that you shouldn’t have to be doing. Deal with the rest. Sometimes you just have to say, ‘if it is to be, it is up to me’ and get on with it.

5. Know It Is God Who Goes Before You

Here are lyrics of a hymn written by  Nicolaus Zinzendorf who lived between 1700 and 1760.

“He leads us on by paths we did not know; upward He leads us, though our steps are slow.  Though oft we faint and falter on the way, though storms and darkness oft obscure the day; yet when the clouds are gone, we know He leads us on. He leads us on through all the unquiet years; past all our dreamland hopes and doubts and fears, He guides our steps, through all the tangled maze of losses, sorrows and o’er clouded days; We know His will is done. And still He leads us on.”  

Nothing has changed. Trust God to lead you on!

Isaiah 14:24

The Lord almighty has sworn, “Surely as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will happen.”

Here’s to a successful 2018!

# 528 of my 1000 thanks is for my laptop that is my constant help with all sorts of things and information!

Keep the smile going.

God bless you!

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂