Getting out of that rut

Beatrice Tonhodzayi-Ngondo
IN a couple of days, those of us highly favoured by the One who gives life will see the coming in of a New Year. The year 2013 is on its way out and 2014 is on its way in. The messages I am getting from loved ones from across the world bear testimony to the fact that a new season is coming.

There are many good wishes for prosperity, safety and good fortune in the year 2014 each time I look at social networking platforms and communicate with those in my circles. It’s the season of the New Year.

Truth be told, the year 2013 has been tough. I don’t know about you but I felt it. From what people on the streets, banking halls, hospitals, civil service, informal sector, formal sector, industry and everywhere else are saying, they will be glad to see the back of this year and the coming in of another, in the hope of course, as is always the case with any new dawn, that the future will be better.

We all would like to see an end to low productivity, the liquidity crunch, water and power shortages, high food and living costs. We would just like a better deal and the coming of a New Year as always, is filled with the promise that a better day may be coming.

As a result, people always come up with New Year resolutions at this time of the year. As was the case when 2012 ended, resolution lists have been drawn up and that is to be expected. It is normal. It happens every time one year ends and another comes up.

The challenge, however, is always in the execution of these resolutions. I know many people who just draw up resolutions but do not implement even one of them. You wonder why they draw them up in the first place at times.

After all, no on Earth ever holds a gun to anyone’s head to do so, do they? I was blessed enough to hear a certain strong word being preached recently which struck a chord in my spirit.

The word was that while many can dream, fantasise, plan and wish to accomplish certain things, it is a few who implement and get to fruition.

The word went further to say that nothing is as sad as someone who always plans but never implements.  It cited examples of people who after failing to execute in a certain place think that the answer lies in another place.

How many people do you know who left this country for other destinations believing that their success would only come if they left Zimbabwe?

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