Bishop Allan Kiuna: Why and how you should Give your life a fresh start in 2016

Bishop Allan Kiuna
letting go of the past and conquering new frontiers in 2016 Photo: Courtesy

Congratulations on making it to the New Year; count it as a great blessing for a fresh start.

Regardless of how you got here, it’s time you made fresh adjustments to your life.

As the clock ticked away from 2015 into the New Year, a new opportunity was being created for you to transition from one season to another.

Remember growth is about change, and change is about the constant creation of new beginnings. As a matter of fact, your entire life is hinged on your ability to make new beginnings each time an opportunity is presented to you.

Every new thing you start is your best bet to dwarfing your past failure or success. Therefore, if you want to grow greatly, you must master the art of fresh beginnings and believe in the audacity of trying again and again. Victory only comes to those who are able to lay down the burden of stale living and create fresh days.

Don’t lose hope and never waste an opportunity to attempt daring assignments. Armed with better wisdom and fresh insight, you stand a better chance at accomplishing fresh victory if you try what you failed before. Failure loses its chance to reign, each time you give success a new chance to try again.

King amongst peers

Until you can create fresh beginnings, the blows of defeat that life has given you will always have the last say. So, don’t settle at what happened to you, go and happen to life! Don’t settle at being king amongst peers, go and conquer new frontiers! Even if you succeeded, aim higher and reach for the stars. Yesterday’s excellence is today’s mediocrity.

One of the best gifts you can give yourself this New Year is to have the ‘gift of goodbye’. Be willing to wave bye-bye to old things, so that you can create room for the new to stand and flourish. The fresh dream may never fully see the light of day until you kick out the old nightmare!

Remember that whatever didn’t kill you made you stronger. You must become a staunch believer in comebacks. Be the cat with nine lives! Life is for you to live, not to give up and die. Sometimes when we mess up, our minds take away authority from our hearts and giving up becomes a logical conclusion.

This year, shut the mind up if it dares discourage your heart and let your heart do the talking. Regardless of how far life has edged you out of the game, never give up. Renegotiate yourself back into the game, in this life you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate for!

Your life and the success of it is your personal business. Though you may delegate power to do this or the other, you can never delegate responsibility. The buck stops with you. Break the vicious cycle of dependence on others and sit firmly on the throne of your life and govern yourself properly.

Budget for mistakes

Do not repeat the mistakes that have brought you where you are. God is in control, but you are in charge! Budget for mistakes next time; life is not perfect. Expecting a problem-free life is both unrealistic and deceiving. Expect and anticipate errors, shortfalls and deficits and plan for them in advance. When challenges are expected and adequately prepared for, they lose the potency of their damage. People will let you down, losses may be incurred and unexpected disappointments may cripple your progress, but do not allow a bend in the road to become the end of the road.

This is your year

Creating new beginnings demands not just the wisdom, but the ability to create room for error. I am not advocating for pessimism and allowances for mediocrity, but the wise accommodation of the fact that things may not always turn out the way we expected.

No matter what has worked or not rise above it and get it behind you. Forget the gunfires, bombs and moments that almost took you out and focus on how to make the best out of this new opportunity. Sometimes, the road may become impassable or even change, but the destination must remain the same. Don’t wait to get stronger so as to begin, start now. The way to get ahead is to get started.

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