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Dr (Hon) S Senthil Kandeepan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

It\u2019s a New Year, and that generally entails one thing \u2013 resolutions. With the renewal of a calendar milestone comes the renewal of aspirations, desires and expectations of outcome. Dreams take on new wings, like a bird assuming breeding colours. Although in the northern hemisphere it\u2019s winter, there\u2019s a newness in the air, a promise of possibility, a conception of change, a mood of progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, despite all these seeds of shift, there ends up being no sea change in our ways, as we forget all about our resolutions, which end up soon in the waste bin of wishful thoughts, just a few days after the New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, my friends, is the result of the force of habit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually that\u2019s a misnomer, because habit is not a force, but the lack of it. It\u2019s inertia. Inertia of set ways, inertia of convenient familiarity coming at the cost of adventure, discovery, and risk; inertia of settling for enough in your ward, when you can actually think big and go for the higher reward. To be habituated to something means you have become too comfortable in your zone, and that\u2019s never a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a saying that to have something you\u2019ve never had, or be someone you\u2019ve never been, you need to do something you\u2019ve never done. Let 2024 be the year when you do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So my wish for you for the New Year is not just that you be blessed with everything you want; it is that may you do what you\u2019ve always wanted to do but have never bothered to change your habits to do it, and thereby, may you open yourself up to that which you haven\u2019t even imagined. For that is the real reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a groundbreaking month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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