Tomorrow marks the end of one year and the beginning of another. The beginning of a new year means a lot to everyone. It’s that feeling of starting fresh that inspires all of us to be hopeful for the future. All the BS we went through in 2018 can be written off as the past and we can move on to a new frontier. I would say that this is the time of the year when we are the most ambitious.

“New year, new me”. We all love to say it – almost as much as “new phone, who dis?” We get the formal chance to reinvent ourselves. Set a new standard for how we want life to go. I would say the keyword in all of this is “expectation”. We come up with fresh, new expectations of our lives and from ourselves that can cause us to be better human beings in the long run.

I personally love the new year for this very reason. I believe that we must make great use of this time in order to lay out our expectations for 2019. “Expectation” is essential when dealing with the future. Think about it, we have expectations for everyday we live – some good, some bad. Either way, expectations layout a guideline for our faith to follow. The journey of life requires faith, however without expectation there is no destination. You see, we need both for either of them to make sense.

There is something about writing down your expectations that keep you more accountable of believing in them. This is something I do before the beginning of each year. I write down everything I want God to do for me that year. Some notable items I had on my list for 2018 was to get an internship, a new car, safe traveling, and for my aunt to be healed from cancer. Wanna know what my 2018 was like?

I got my first ever internship as a Marketing and Project Management intern at AT&T over the summer.

My dad, my sister and I put or money together to buy me a new 2018 Honda Accord.

My sister’s life was delivered from a car wreck in November (surely she shouldn’t have made it out of that one.)

And last but not least, my aunty became cancer-free.

Expectation gives way to faith, faith gives way to life-saving, internship-making, new-car-smelling miracles. Write down what you expect to get out of 2018 on a sheet of paper and hold onto it for the entirety of 2019. Cross off everything on the list that you achieve/receive as you go along. At the end of 2019 we can regroup and give God the glory for all He had done.

Happy New Year!