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Reflecting back to the year 2017 which was of course, a roller coaster ride that was indeed an overwhelming year for me. That was the year I had a lot of things going on, faced a couple of challenges, got busy with a lot of things and was on the path of actually finding myself. Literally, 2017 served me with both the good and bad but it was truly an incredible run. It was a year filled with experiences from all angles and the fact that I had to get used to adulting even made it scarier because of the level of responsibility that's usually ascribed to it.

I just wanted to be independent so bad and to achieve that, setting my priorities and focusing on the important things in life were two major area I didn’t want to end up failing at. Every year is bound to serve the ugly and beautiful which makes challenges each year inevitable but regardless there are always occurrences that we can’t just deny being grateful for. Experience in life they say is the best teacher with the mistakes suffered broadening your horizon and making you a better person.

Learn't quite a lot last year with many occurrences surfacing as eye-openers that made understanding the whole journey of life more beautiful. We are in 2018 now which is a whole journey that has kicked off on an amazing note for most of us. More experiences, challenges, success, and mistakes would definitely be encountered which is the reason that necessitated this post as I would love to show some simple things you could inculcate into your 2018 to make it more blissful.

Following your intuition

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Your intuition means your perceptive insight originating from the use of your cognitive faculty when making decisions. It could be synonymous with what you experience daily when a tiny voice in your head tells you what to do and helps you make a distinction/selection between the right and wrong course of action. That voice that whispers to you what should be done should be followed as most times, it’s usually the right thing to do, believe in yourself and follow your guts as it would always guide you to aright.

Follow your heart.

Serendipity

Do you believe in serendipity, do you believe in luck?... Serendipity are those unsought and unintended moments/occurrences that take place in your life which are fortunate or beneficial thereby making you glad that they did occur. It's basically series of unexpected but fortunate happenings which took place as a result of perfect timing, coincidence or plain luck. You should be open to accepting such occurrences and the opportunities they birth

Good time management would never let you down

Poor time management is one major flaw of most with the belief that they have more than enough time, they tend to focus on the less important then become awoken at the brink of the time lapse to the fact that they wouldn’t be able to achieve what they had set out to. For too many of us, 24 hours is never enough and even if extended to 26 or 27, it wouldn’t still be sufficient which goes on to tell us that good time management and self-discipline when learned and achieved makes it easy for us to achieve our set out target.

Time is one resource that can't be stored or saved, if not utilized properly it can’t be retrieved

A social media that doesn’t impact your life like Steemit is a pure time waster as well as keeping up with many series, movies, and programmes a distraction. Try to create a balance, do what needs to be done at the right time then create time to have fun.

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Success can never be achieved by just planning

We all are familiar with the saying “ he who doesn’t plan, plans to fail”, a saying that affirms the importance of planning. However, most people plan but fail to act on those plans leading to them achieving nothing. Therefore, we should back up our plans with the effort required to achieve those plans to reality.

Planning is good but also, too much of it should be avoided to prevent a sabotage of your actions.

Conclusion

We all have our strategies and goals mapped out to run through the year but regardless, take a step at a time, don’t let anything hinder you, stay positive, network, work hard and smart, stop complaining, ditch the blame game, stay woke and surround yourself with so much positivity.

There is so much to learn and achieve, things would only get better.