Weekly Reflections #26: A Fresh Start - What Will You Do Differently In 2025?

Greetings beautiful members of 'Steemit for Betterlife' community. It's an immense pleasure to be here. I'm a newcomer here as this is my first post on the community. I hope I can make friends here too 😁.

Well, this is my entry on a contest by @damithudaya. I hope you enjoy reading it.

The beginning of every year should be marked by a thorough criticism of one's personal mistakes in the previous year and a review of the good and bad tidings it encapsulated. I was taught three years ago in a junior class that one importance of History (as a subject) is the better decision making it promotes.

Once we get into a new year, the one we just left becomes history. A wise saying has it that "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery and today is a gift".

To unravel tomorrow with pleasant effects, we must use our history. We have to recognize the mistakes we made yesterday so we don't make them again tomorrow. We have to go revisit the situations that made us make those blunders so that tomorrow when we re-encounter them, we know what to do. This is the message this contest is trying to convey to you.

Last year, I learned a principle, a fact; the most important opinion about you is the one you have about yourself; it's the only one that matters.

In 2024, people got into the habit of saying untrue things about me. I in turn got into the habit of explaining myself all the time. This boiled down to a lot of psychological stress on my already bamboozled brain.

I am a very social person. I always have been. I am also influential (tend to get decidedly popular) in school, at church, among my peers and on social media. I almost always have leadership duties. I am my class' perfect and hold a whooping number of followers on my Tiktok account. For a future celebrity, I have always cared too much about what people say.

As an extrovert, I am very susceptible to ill opinion from people who don't know me on a personal basis. On 27th November, 2024, I put an end to the explanations I always gave. It was that day I learned to live my life like it was mine.

What key area of your life do you want to change or improve this year?

Well, big question 😌. The area of my life I want to improve on is academic-related. I have always had slight complications with Chemistry and Physics. Less with the former and more with the latter. That doesn't augur well for someone who wants to remain an excellent student. I intend to spend more time with these two subjects so that I can crunch them like chin-chin as I do their contemporaries.

Are there any habits or skills you plan to develop in the new year?

Well, I'm a self taught makeup artist. I learned what I know from YouTube videos and on my sisters' faces. For close to a year I have been in need of cosmetic products. As a result of this, I haven't practicalised for so long and I feel like I have a lot of refurbishing to do.

I want to get into the habit of regular exercise. For a coon's age I have undermined the usefulness of exercise. I go for literal months without even a leg stretch. I only shake up a little some Wednesdays in school when we're having sports. That's very bad. I know what exercises do for body and I want the benefits hence I'll work towards it.

Describe your vision and plan to achieve at the end of the year.

At the end of this year I want;

▪️To become a guru in Chemistry and Physics. So good that I can tutor others.

▪️ To withdraw 35,000 Nigerian Naira at least from my saving box.

▪️To have at least 2,000 followers on my Tiktok account.

▪️To have at least 200 followers on my Instagram account.

▪️To have made earnings, learned more and made new friends here on Steemit.

Whoo! That'll be all for now fam. Feel free to participate in this amazing contest as there are still two days left. I call on @alysaa, @khayjhay and @destinedhanik to join in on this. Take care beautiful people. Link👇https://steemit.com/hive-153970/@damithudaya/contest-announcement-and-winners-or-weekly-reflections-26-a-fresh-start-what-will-you-do-differently-in-2025