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New Year's resolution

The important things in life

By Albert SundvePublished 4 years ago Updated 4 years ago 5 min read
New Year's resolution
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What is important in life is you and how you feel. The important thing is what you do with your opportunities. We all have different possibilities, we are all different, and we all have different prerequisites. But what we all have in common is that we are human, and as human we have some basic qualities and skills, and we have some talent that we can utilize.

Do you live alone or with others? It's the same - you are a person in life, a person with opportunities, skills and talent. But what you make of your life means everything; the attitude to life itself, the attitude to yourself and the choices you make all the time.

Often we are governed by emotions and feelings, and by impressions we get from others. Often we feel unfree, often we feel overlooked and underestimated; we are sorry and we can get angry.

In relation to such things we can let ourselves be dominated, we can let ourselves be ruled by human beings who are not good for us. Or we can put our foot down, we can get up, we can take control of our lives. It can easily be about going into yourself and talking some serious words with yourself.

Taking responsibility for yourself and your life can be about getting up slowly and starting to go in the direction you want. And it's about shaking off everything that lies and weighs you down. It's about shaking off the yoke on your shoulders, this invisible weight, the load that you do not have to carry on.

What you can say to yourself is that now is the time, now it's your turn, now you have to prioritize yourself. You should no longer let the things that bother you have so much space anymore. You should not let extraneous thoughts bother you anymore; you must go into yourself, and you must know that you have a liberating power, a strength within yourself.

You should think that you should focus on rest, you should focus on retreat, focus on your own best situation in your own development. You should think that it is you who is important, it is you who owes no, it is you who comes first now, above all the other things that you do for others. And if you recognize yourself in this, if you are a careful person, a person who is reflective who is easy to tilt out of balance, if you are a person who is easy to influence - then you may be a person who can never get well if you let others control you in your life.

If you are a person that others control and rule with, a person who is dominated by others, then it is important for you to create distance. You need to create distance to these people who intentionally or unknowingly dominate you, push you, make you feel small, make you feel unfree.

Imagine that you are going to withdraw a little from the world, go into yourself. Seek rest, seek to shield yourself from the noise out there. You shall search within you; you should search for strength.

Take a walk in beautiful nature.

Think of something that gives you joy.

Read something that you know will lift you up.

Listen to music that gives you good vibes.

Do you live closely with a partner or spouse who is stressing you, who is hovering like a bird of prey over your life and who criticizes you or dominates you - think that this new year will be the year when you carefully get up, carefully feel that you can stand free and rest safely in yourself. Let this be the new year will be the year when you get up and stand on your own two feet. Let this be the year when you take care of yourself first and foremost, instead of taking care of the one who will control you, who will suck forces out of you.

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If you live close to a person who is very stressed and who has a tendency to get very angry, you may need to take action. The person in question may lack self-awareness and does not understand that he pushes people in close relationships away from him.

Maybe he is often annoyed, often condescending in what he says to you. Perhaps he is full of youthful arrogance, and this youthful arrogance is expressed in aggression, in verbal outbursts against you and others close to you that you love.

Maybe you are in the unfortunate situation that you are defenseless because you can not use the same type of attack tools as him?

Maybe you just have to bite into yourself your grief and irritation because of the attacks, the hurtful and unjust criticism and the insults that he brings? Then it may be that you have to try to find a way to create space, to create distance to this person. You may have to be careful, you must not answer with the same coin as him, because you know from experience that answers with the same coin only lead to escalation of the conflict and chaos.

Maybe you are in a situation, in a relationship with the person in question where it is impossible to react with irritation or anger. Maybe you do not answer the person with the corresponding unreasonable argument because the person who says ugly things to you clearly has no control over himself.

If you have a person near you that you cannot avoid, that you cannot chase away, that you cannot escape from, then it may be that you have to seek strength within yourself. You must bring out an inner strength to stand in the storm, stand and in action and deed show the one who is out of balance that you are strong enough in yourself, that you can do without this person's friendly treatment.

Maybe you have to think that the young person is about to become something else, something better later on. You may have to think that this is not within your reach to take responsibility for. Maybe you just have to be patient and answer as little as possible when this person comes up with their aggressive outcomes.

No matter the challenges, no matter what others do, what others say to you - only you can do something about it, only you can control this. No one else can do it for you, no one else can free you from the people who are close to you in your life, the ones you can not shut out of your life.

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Think it's your turn now.

Think that you should prioritize yourself, you should give your own rest first priority.

Let this be the year when you have the strength and courage to stand in your life, whether now your life will be the same life as before, closely linked to the person you once connected with, or if you choose to break out and stand free.

There is no definitive answer, no other than this: Find your rest, find your balance, find where you can stand safely. Find the life attitude you can live in and enjoy; find the life attitude you can grow in or with.

Do you live with someone you know is good for you? Show that you appreciate it if you feel good about the other person you are with; show that you are grateful that you have what you have with this other person.

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About the Creator

Albert Sundve

Lifelong learner, educator, family father, author.

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