Here we are celebrating and entering another New Year. The question is "What's going to be 'NEW' about it?" Oh sure the calendar year has increased by one, but what is going to be different about it? Are WE going to enter this one like the last one? Are the numbers who have fallen to "The Madness" going to remain the same or increase? Are YOU going to sit by and allow "The Madness", and those who create it, to continue to dictate how YOU live? And what New Year resolution will YOU make? Here's a suggestion. Forget about all of the traditional resolutions YOU make year in and year out that are never kept anyway!
Try these:
1. To communicate more with ALL young people
2. To ensure that you communicate honestly and openly
3. To educate the young people about LIFE and the responsibilities of LIFE
4. To recognize and communicate to young people that they have greatness in them and then help nurture it.
5. To resign yourself to the fact that "living in fear" IS NOT living at all
6. To figure out how YOU can change things and then DO IT!
7. To communicate with YOURSELF in an honest manner
8. To STOP waiting for everyone else to make the first move!
9. To get to know your neighbor, your neighborhood and then your community
10. To help change "Negative Peer Pressure" into "Positive Peer Leadership"
11. To STOP using the same old excuses for not doing anything
12. To educate ALL young people about their History
13. To make this year your time for a personal "checkup from the neck up".
14. To understand that "He whose ranks are united for a positive purpose will be victorious".