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Life Reset At Eighteen!

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I am holding up for a LIFE RESET AT 18.

First, I’ll love to scream this, “I’m back!”. This writer is resurrected, I pray.

Hurray to you all like me looking forward to a life reset as you turn big 18 [and those anticipating 18].
Age eighteen is society’s golden age, most of us “day old eighteens” are busy trying to pull the best outfit, the best party and share the most gorgeous images straight out of the studio. Nice one.


If you are a control and productivity fanatic like me, well, you are definitely not alone. Welcome. Here’s a ghost cup of coffee, tea [or any refreshment you love] sit back, relax, I will just roll over a fresh canvas and we can start this reset art.


Why am I looking forward to a life reset?


You see, big eighteen is society’s grand license to more expectations and it’s not easy to skip on the demands pilling up from yourself to do better.
No pressure. I’m not pressuring myself or expecting myself to figure everything out, no. I just did a good reflection and saw some flaws in my character that I’m paying for with my fulfillment as a young person.


This is my personal way of giving myself another chance to start all over again with all the qualities I took for granted: actions, boldness, consistency, discipline, commitment, systems, and so on. If I don’t declare a reset I’ll feel uneasy and like I’m just trying to mend old failures but what I want is a new person trying to be better as an individual… bringing to life with baby steps all the characteristics and disposition I’ll love to see in myself.
It would not be hasty; it will not be perfect [though I love the idea of perfect]. It will be struggling to choose commitment daily as much as I can. It will be doing the work rather than just making endless lists.
Your turn. What is your why?

How am I carrying out this reset?

My photo before 12:00am
  • WRITING X JOURNALING


For the past 10 days before my birthday, I tried putting down in a digital notepad [keep notes] all my reflections and thoughts I had about the coming big 18 and ending 17. This helped me with a glimpse of clarity in what I think I did wrong, did right and what I will love to change; then came a list of things I’ll want to do.
So:
I created a random document in my phone called “life reset” and dropped an idea of what I’ll like to do whenever the idea came and after a while I tried considering and organizing the events.

  • DECLUTTER
From google


Believe me this was a big deal to me. I am yet to see some of the results but there is peace in knowing you have less around you. It makes sense that as you try to RESET, you take out things that you don’t use anymore or you are no longer acquainted with. It ushers in that sense of freshness and newness. Try not to go overboard with this or analyze this too much. Try not to remove things that you’ll regret, just remove whatever you know is not necessary.

Here is what I did:

I deleted contacts that I didn’t use frequently and those I had second thoughts about; I wrote them down in the contact form at the back of my journal just in case the need for them arises. Believe me I wanted to remove so much more than I already did but some acquaintances need to stay even though communication is not frequent example course mates, and people that think they know you but don’t.
I deleted videos, images, messages, apps, files, SONGS. I love music; so much. But I knew I had to let go of those songs I’m so quick to next when they start playing. What is the use of having a long list of songs when you’re always skipping a lot [I can always download again when I finally miss them]. This felt hard at first but after then, I felt really good.

I know I will still do more of decluttering because of the fresh feeling it holds. I’m looking forward to library and wardrobe declutter once I am ready for thrift shopping.
The act of decluttering did set that vibe of a rest… The mood was ignited. That’s pretty much it [for me at least]

  • BIG CHANGE


I FINALLY came up with what all this was about. Why? Why do I want to change? Goals and tasks are based on a central desire. Choosing that desire automatically puts you through your goals when systems are created. Mine was:


▪️Reducing procrastination as much as possible.
▪️Growing discipline
▪️Taking more actions more than I make lists and goals. That is, being less passive and more active.

And the plan here was to stick with taking baby steps DAILY until I sink into autopilot.

  • SHEDULES AND ROUTINES


OKAY, I am still in the process of creating a functioning, realistic and productive schedule and building it into a routine. My goal for this routine is:

to know what to do and realize the time for actions, not necessary living an adventure-free routine life. No, just scheduling my activities and guarding those times least I neglect my commitments.


I have certainly asked myself, are you ready to commit? And I try to say to myself, that no matter how small and mundane these tasks may seem, it is not here to give me glory but to help mould my character as a young adult.

I am yet to establish these routines but I hope it goes well and I HOPE to stay committed daily and I won’t feel to make adjustments if any time block fails.
I am going to adopt the pomodoro method of getting this done [tomato unit 🍅] and soon enough I’ll have feedbacks. Also, I’ll be scheduling specific tasks for specific time blocks.

Be sure to watch youtube videos, ask question to both trusted people and google [yet guard your choices]. Get to know how others are pulling through. All these will open you to new ideas you’ll love to test.

  • BOOKS

IN ALL you do, never neglect reading books. Make it a frequent task as much as you can. As for me:
I will be exploring classic novels and financial books, I pray and I will try to take aesthetically pleasing photos of which ever I engage in [for the gram and my eyes].

Try as much as possible to explore new genres of books as this might open you to new interests or ideas.

  • LANGUAGE


YES I will be learning a new language and I think you should. I am doing this clearly from my love of accents, polyglots and playing characters. They say passion is not enough so I have gone to google and searched up,

“Why it is important that I learn a second language”.

There you have it. As for me, my first pick is Spanish for a second language. So please remind me I am a becoming student of Spanish, gracias. I am about to buy a cheap Spanish lesson notebook which I’ll be using for this long journey. And I hope to make a future blog post on my progress and process under the category productivity and growth. Speaking of categories…

  • THE BIBLE
  • I have not been reading my Bible and that has to change. Whether it was born from my reflection or from God’s will… It remains beautiful

I have not been reading my Bible and that has to change. Whether it was born from my reflection or from God’s will… It remains beautiful. Recently I kept wondering why I am a fanatic for romance and for love in general, love displayed in life overall. I concluded that I might just be in love with love itself… Within a moment of epiphany I realized that God is love and Jesus must be real. I realized that it could be Jesus himself showing me the beauty of love: who he is himself and why I should love. I choose faith, I choose to love him because he loved me first… And I’m reading the Bible to learn how to love, to change into all those qualities I admire. I choose to grow in love

  • CATEGORIES

I HAVE temporarily categorized my actions and focus into the following: productivity, language, school, reading, socials, spiritual, photography, and looks. It’s not fixed, things can change, and this will help me organize my actions, mobile space and information.

TYPYING ALL these now just showed me how much I am planning on committing to. This would SURELY not be easy because I am a respectable, high ranked, professional procrastinator and planner without major actions. But then again, that’s it. That’s what I desperately want to change.

I hope to share my progress via my instagram account and brush that one a bit as I am a lover of aesthetically pleasing photos.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic my plan of purchasing a camera and learning editing has been suspended till further notice.


I HOPE to keep up with school work and study my bible frequently. All these, I wish to DO, key word, DO.
It’s been a long chat, I forgot to refill your cup of tea [or whatever you may be drinking], forgive my manners. It’s been a pleasure chatting with you on my birthday and new age.

Above all, I pray I don’t sleep out of my commitments for I will deeply break my heart and accountability all over again.
And like I said before, Baby steps, that’s just what it is.

Blossom

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12 September 2019

BIBLE JOURNAL AND FAITH

The LORD sent you, and will tell you what to say.


Today I’ve been reading, studying and pondering on John 12. John 12:40 led me to Isaiah 6:10.
I am a Christain. I do believe in Jesus. Sometimes I don’t feel like a person that believes, I don’t feel like there is Jesus but that’s just a feeling. Yet I have the faith that Jesus is true and that faith you see stays deep and it fills me with guilt when I don’t believe. Complicated sentence right?

Many people do not believe in God or Jesus. They just live their lives and I am very certain this is because of a deep fear they don’t admit to themselves. The fear of not being able to follow up with the Christian principles and works. The fear of lying to yourself for so long. The fear of being deceived. The fear of not living your life to the fullest. The fear of being restricted to a particular lifestyle. The fear of being conscious about your actions. The fear of how difficult it is. But also the weakness of man, the truth that man is weak and not strong enough to be good. The difficulty in doing what’s right.

I myself have questioned the existence of God longer than most unbelievers do. I have shouted to the skies and ask him to show himself to me, even though it’s with a sign. Because I wanted my own eyes to see his glory before I believe. I wanted to see for myself and not by what other people said to me. Why? Because of the fear of being deceived.

God is more spirit and nothing close to human except for the image.

First, If you want to find evidence of God’s existence and Jesus’ sacrifice you must first believe he exists… Just a simple believing first. That’s the deal he keeps. You must first believe before he can show himself to you. Just like any other deal we humans do. You do your part, he does his part and you must do it in honesty.
I am slowly finding reasons to believe in God, which will lead to believing in Jesus. You must first believe the earth did not just appear, believe in the sovereignty of a mighty God before you can start focusing on who Jesus is.

Next, you see Christians believe God gave Jesus so he can save the world. Here is how he led me towards understanding:
Before I say it, PLEASE PICK A BIBLE AND READ ISAIAH 60 and John 12.
NOW, we should start seeing Jesus as more of a principle than constantly demanding to see him. Jesus is rejected by thousands of people because he says the truth. And we all know how hard saying the truth is… There’s the fear of being mocked or beaten or hated or rejected and this fact itself proves the reality Jesus is.
The truth is something hard to be told in this world and Jesus himself being the TRUTH makes it excruciatingly hard to accept him or even talk about him.

Reading the Bible helps you know more of his principles. So to be able to find evidence of his existence you must read his principles and see if it matches what you already see happening now. In this evidence based research you must be willing to talk to him, like just ask him questions even though you hear no answers; this is basically that hard thing Christians call prayer.
We claim to be able to hear our own voices in our head. Sometimes some say things we normally wouldn’t say, sometimes they sound brutal and sometimes sound nice and good. Have we asked ourselves why some are good and some are evil. Have we asked ourselves why sometimes we can’t control the voices. That only means it’s controlled by something we can’t see and understand. Good or bad. And what we can’t see is called a spirit and God is a spirit… Spirit of good and most things the world is against.

Notice how a child is at birth, very inquisitive and gentle and ready to help. That’s the natural state before the tug of war between accepting what’s good and what’s evil.

Jesus is a principle that tells us to say the truth because everyone deserves the truth, to love and to continue spreading these principles with others, so they themselves will do good things and the earth is all rainbows. Jesus now is rejected by humans and seen as a fairytale.
Is this not what is happening now?

God said he sent his son Jesus, the word, the truth, the light in a dark world where everyone is ready to kill…. Why? Because God knew if people followed Jesus, this principle of saying the truth, loving people and giving to people about to die; He knew if the earth does this there will be less war, less starvation and wicked government, less greed because the truth will be told, less killing to acquire properties because everyone is ready to give. The world will be saved from all these evil and killing and selfishness and hurt, from this suicide bombing and harassment and discrimination and strive to please other people. Because like God commands “Don’t anger someone to sin”. If we obeyed God we wouldn’t do things to make someone angry and filled with hate.
God’s gospel from my understanding is truth, love, light, doing hard things and being rejected by majority of the world… Because the truth is hard for the world. The world chooses to just reject him and tell themselves there is no God. Meanwhile this very principle plays in our society.

Jesus is not just a religion, He is a way of life that saves man. The economy will be easier and killing will not be easy because love will be around.

Humans are lazy. We really don’t like hard work so we choose not to do hard things. We see the principal of Jesus taught in moral classes and company regulations but we are afraid to commit and choose to ignore Him.

If you want to learn more, pick the bible and watch God show you the original principles of the earth
Isaiah 6:9-10 says the whole conflict:

Isaiah 6:9 NLT
 And he said, “Yes, go, and say to this people, ‘Listen carefully, but do not understand. Watch closely, but learn nothing.’
 Isaiah 6:10 NLT
 Harden the hearts of these people. Plug their ears and shut their eyes. That way, they will not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their hearts and turn to me for healing.”
 https://bible.com/bible/116/isa.6.9.NLT

P. S To be honest most Christians make Christianity hard to accept because you don’t resonate to their picture of him. Some don’t even practice what they teach. God is spirit, God is love, Jesus is the truth that saves the earth from doing evil. All God wants is for you to believe in Jesus, that is, doing good will save the earth and will continue to save the earth.
“Where is the love? where is Jesus? “

I admit this is not all to Christianity, I admit Christian have their hard practices and rituals… But all God really wants is that you believe in Jesus (his word) and Jesus will save you and the world. And the greatest Christian practice is just to spread this word, that is Jesus despite the rejection. That you should live a lifestyle that displays Jesus, the truth.

Christians believe that Jesus is the only way to God that means the truth, love and doing good is the only way to God.

I wish I can say it all here. The earth is waiting for Jesus to appear before they believe him but we here on earth are suppose to adopt that spirit of truth and just live by it. The truth is hard.
Jesus dying on the cross just symbolises the fact that God have plans we can’t understand because we are are human. His death serves a purpose of forgiveness even when we fail in doing what’s right and just. So we can always ask for forgiveness and start again.

Jesus is everywhere because everyone demands to be told to truth.

Give God a chance, set aside other people’s ideas and go seek him yourself by believing and reading his word. He will guide you through even when you don’t see him.

You will grow in your faith. .

I was able to understand and explain from this perspective because I’ve been praying even when I hear no answers out loud and I’ve been reading the Bible even when I don’t understand.

God speaks through out thinking and advice from people that matches to his word and God teaches humans to be patient.

Give him a chance, open your heart and do hard things…