My 2020 Resolution

According to Franklin Covey 35% of us who make New Year's resolutions break them by the end of January, only 23% of everyone who makes a resolution will see it through to completion.

To which team do you belong? Are you part of the 77 % who make resolutions only to find you've given up before you ever really got started or do you achieve them?

For me , I think I am in the middle between the 77% and the 23% , why ? I think because I do achieve some of my resolutions partially one way or another.

As I look back on my resolutions for the last 5 years, I find common ones and even more I find many repeated, I probably do not achieve them, and I carry them forward.

I paused and I thought about that, and my small shallow mind told me that I should not waste my time with resolutions this new year. Instead, I must focus on something far better: resolve. While the words are similar, the difference is significant.

A resolution is something you make; resolve is something you have. So, this year – I will not just wish, I will be committed.

I do commit to myself grace, yes, grace and will love me more without building the ego barrier that can come with one loving self.

I do commit to be always at war with my vices, at peace with my virtues, and to let the new year find me as a better person.

I do commit to learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow.

I do commit to look where I stand and aim to where I want to be. I will walk towards the light even if it means I walk alone. We don’t need permission to grow. Not everyone who started with you will finish with you and that’s how life works

I do commit to relive my childhood, to bring back the simplicity in my life.

I do commit to stand at equal distance from others and only invest in people who are willing to do the same.

I do commit to continue learning, I never loose, I either win or learn.

Finally, I do commit to embrace change not to fight it.

In 2020 I will continue to stick to what I achieved in 2019 and the years before, to stay hopeful, to rise above the little things ,including people, to not judge nor label, to accept defeat with my head up high with the grace of an adult not the grief of a child, to continue building bridges not walls, to lead not to follow, to forgive but not forget and above all to speak my mind out and not to shy away from speaking with condor and truth.

Every year I say it has been a tough one, so many things happened and so many dynamics drove life’s roller coaster but 2019 sets the benchmark to be the year of the speediest and saddest events to me, from losing loved ones at a blink of an eye to lots of challenges in life and in the world, Egypt included.

I only wish 2020 is kinder to me, to Egyptians and to the whole of mankind.

I wish you all a happier year ahead, blessed homes, healthier families and younger souls to brighten your days.

To you all, family, friends, neighbors, sisters, brothers, nephews, nieces, my dog, the passers who walked in my life and above all to my lovely mother: Cheers to the new year and to another chance to get it right.

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