Welcome to 2026! The long awaited year is already here, and it is an honour to see a new year alive, in health, and in goodness. The beginning of a new year carries a very powerful message; you have been given a blank page. No matter what happened last year and how it went, you now have another opportunity for a fresh start. As a matter of fact, the new year has given everyone an equal 365 days, but it is how you live your life that will determine what becomes of your own gift of a new year. Just to let you know; the year has already started and all the plans you have should start being implemented. It is what you do with the first moments of the year that will determine how the rest will be. ![pexels-ann-h-45017-32417524.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRUQreSJYAVymLAT7Ddzn8az26Fg5Ngr5Zr3KPJcWdo9n/pexels-ann-h-45017-32417524.jpg) _{Image from [Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/photo/wooden-number-blocks-displaying-year-2026-32417524)} A lot of people already have their resolutions and the plans that they have to fulfill. But just to let you know, you are the one to work them out and make them to be actualised. If you want this year to be different from last year, then you have to do something differently. A blank page is sitting right before your eyes, but it is up to you to write what you want. The year started on a good note, with endless possibilities, but it also comes with responsibilities. To be able to profit from the possibilities, you need to take on responsibilities. After all, you can only harvest when you have planted. If you keep doing what you did in the past years in the same way, you will not get a new result. It is worthy to note that the new year does not demand perfection from you, rather it demands intentionality and responsibility. You need to be deliberate about how you want the year to be. You may have amazing plans that you have set and how you want the year to run, but it is also dependent on your actions. Do not just sit and wait for things to happen for you this year, you have to work them out yourself and create the kind of success you want. Things do not just happen by chance, rather they are deliberately and consciously made to happen. If you take a reflection of how last year went, you will know if there is something you need to do that you are not doing, or what you did that you were not supposed to do. The lessons you learnt in the past years should be what will make you better this year. Even though you are starting the year on a fresh page, but you are starting with experiences from the past years. Remember that you are the one to determine if this year will be different for you, or if it will just run like the other years. It is your extra actions that you will put in that will produce extraordinary result. It does not mean you are chasing perfection, but it means that you are intentional about what you want. ![pexels-anntarazevich-6027785.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSji5g6oA8FmV5fJMf78uds2rcYj5ftJ7GtNMWoyEkDXR/pexels-anntarazevich-6027785.jpg) _{Image from [Pexels](https://www.pexels.com/photo/letter-tiles-beside-mandarins-6027785)} You have to keep reminding yourself that the year is already moving, and each passing moment should be maximised. Do not just live the year on expectations of luck or on chance. It does not mean that you should not hope to be lucky, but it is actually better that the luck meets you while already taking actions. Most of what people call "luck" are simply the result of hard work meeting opportunities. For each passing day of the year, try to do something new; take a new step, explore new opportunities, dare new risks. Trust me, if you keep shooting at the stars, then you have higher chances of hitting your target. But even if you do not hit the star, you might hit the moon, which is also a plus. What I mean is that no step is actually unworthy. You either earn from it or learn your lessons from it. One of the things that I want to also remind you is that for every new height you attain, there will be new challenges to face. So in this new year, you should not wish for challenges not to come, rather you need to build up yourself and get yourself prepared to face the challenges and turn them into opportunities to achieve greatness. The energy that you use to prevent challenges from happening can be channelled to turn them into your allies. Where others are seeing problems, you should see opportunities, and you will be surprised the kind of greatness you will be opened up to. ***Thanks for reading***

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