2022 BE INTENTIONALLY PURPOSEFUL
I heard Oprah make the above statement on a YouTube interview. She talked about being very busy that particular year and the interviewer said, ‘busy is good.’ But Oprah said not really because she was not intentionally purposeful.
It was as if Oprah was talking to me and saying ‘Tola, be intentionally purposeful.’ Those two words hit me like a thunderbolt and I started this year, 2022, with those two words engraved in my heart and mind.
What is it to be intentionally purposeful? In practice what does it look like?
Well, for me, it means these:
1 – To be focused about what you want to achieve.
2 – To not give up when things are not going my way.
3 – To not get involved in anything that would make you lose your peace of mind.
4 – To keep on aiming high.
5 – To educate yourself (do I need to do a course? Yes? What course? Is there anything online, that is free? Yes? Where? ENROL
6 – Pay up to improve yourself if that is what you need to do.
7 – To give yourself daily or weekly targets of what you need or want to achieve in ‘bettering’ yourself.
8 – To stop doing anything that is time consuming and doesn’t add value to your life, except stress.
9 – To stop all manner of voluntary work for friends and family members. (For example, ‘Tola, you bake so well, please bake me a cake.)
10 – To believe in your success, see yourself where you want to be.
11 – Replace ‘I can’t or ‘this is too hard,’ with ‘I can’ and ‘I only need to take the first step.’
12 – To believe in your ability to make it happen as you do all of the above.
13 – To remember that once you are on this ‘intentionally purposeful journey,’ it will get easier.
14 – To not make apologies about ‘the new you.’
15 – To not allow self-doubt stop you from moving forward.
16 – Do it afraid.
17 – People close to you, might say, ‘Oh you have changed.’ Thereby making you feel guilty. It’s your life and you only have one shot at it. Make it count.
If you want more from life, then ‘you have to believe and invest in yourself;‘ a quote from the TV programme ‘Insecure.’
If you want more from life, then ‘you have to invest in yourself if you want to succeed;’ a quote from a TV programme, ‘Living in Dubai.’
You are great and the only thing that can stop you is those self-limiting words that you say to yourself. Raise up the great that is in you and take that bold step of success now, towards being intentionally purposeful in 2022 and beyond.
Peace out.
