Your Best Year Ever

Jan 2014: Nate Speaks!

Lighting Candles for Kwanzaa 2013 A Word From Nate: Your Best Year Ever It is 2014!   May this year be your best year ever!  Have you set your priorities for the rest of the year?  Have you thought about your goals and the action steps that you need to take in order to make your goals a reality?  Have you considered the road blocks and potential naysayers that await you as you pursue your goals?  These are all good questions if you are serious about making this year your best year ever.  You have to set priorities, or you will find yourself running from activity to activity, crisis to crisis, and nothing will be accomplished to your satisfaction.  It is possible that at the end of 2014 you will be making the same promises to yourself that you made every year for the past ten years, with little progress to show yourself.   I know, because I have been that person. Don’t get me wrong, I feel like I have accomplished a great deal in the past ten years, but my inner goals, things like writing the great International Novel, the award winning poetry book, saving enough money to be debt free, taking my trip to South Africa, having a large building to house Imani African Christian Church, the Writers Wordshop, and Life Esteem, Inc. all under one roof, and my list goes on; these things are still on my list and I have every intention to accomplish them in 2014.  Keeping it real, I know for certain that the only way I will reach my goal is to make these things a priority in my life, and asking God to be my guide and foundation in all that I pursue. You can do it!   I can do it!  We can make this the best year of our life by setting priorities, taking a realistic look at our strengths, weaknesses, use of time, attitudes, and beliefs.   We have to make our life a spiritual journey and not an endless dance of narcissistic pleasures.  There is nothing more fulfilling than knowing that you had a goal in mind, you worked hard to achieve it, and you accomplished it without cheating yourself or stealing from someone to do it.  “To Thy Own Self Be True” is a popular quote that I have heard all of my life.   It usually finds space in my reflections at the beginning of each year, as I consider what I want to accomplish in this new-year. If you are willing to make this year the best year of your life, and you know that you have to do some serious reflection about who you are, and what has been holding you back, then I have a deal for you.   The first ten people that contact me by email, at pgadsden@aol.com, with the words “I want to make this the best year of my life” in the “subject area of the email” will receive a free copy of my book, “Learning Self Therapy Through Writing” (the revised edition 2013).   Anyone who contacts me with those words in the subject area of the email, beyond the first ten people, will be able to purchase the book for just $8.00 a copy.   The book retails for $19.95.   “Learning Self Therapy Through Writing” is a guided journal that will assist you in setting goals, self-reflection, and making daily assignments for yourself.   The book is great for teens as well as adults.

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