via EEWMagazine:
Whether or not you make formal New Year’s resolutions, you should be resolved to do some
things differently in the New Year. No matter how great or poorly things went in 2017, we all
have room for improvement.
If you want to experience joy and fulfillment, maximize your potential, and impact the world in
greater ways in the year to come, here are 7 things that are required to make your New Year a
truly happy one.
#1 Unwrap the gift of goodbye: Christmas is over, but there is still one gift you have left to
unwrap: the gift of goodbye. Every old connection and situation isn’t worthy of being brought
into your new season. Walking away from what holds you back, hurts you and keeps you stuck
is the one present you owe to yourself. 2018 is your year of new beginnings. Jesus said in
Matthew 9:17, “Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is
spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are
preserved.” Any person or thing that cannot grow, stretch, change, be flexible or improve, must
be reckoned dead and left behind.
#2 Forget about it. You don’t have to have a true case of amnesia to forget about what’s in
the past. Just shift your focus. Don’t waste mental energy on useless relationships and
circumstances that no longer serve you. If God led you to let it go, leave it in the past. Value
your mental health and preservation by focusing on what matters most, what helps you, what
betters you and what motivates you. As Paul said in Philippians 3:13 NIV, “But one thing I do:
Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.”
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