By Dr Birbal Jha*
I take this opportunity to wish all a very happy, meaningful, productive and prosperous new year 2025!
A new year brings with it new possibilities and challenges, too. Over time, we’ll be faced with certain challenges even though we won’t be willing to. That’s a natural phenomenon. We need to deal with them willingly or unwillingly. Moreover, we must be willing to see every possibility telling us to grab the opportunity.
A good saying goes like this: “Every man is the architect of his own fortune.” In other words, your own actions, reactions, decisions and resolutions determine what your life will be like.
Admittedly, each of us has the potential to design and modify our own future, ensuring that our journey is one of progress, success, and happiness. The new year is the time when we all reflect on the past, learn from it, and then take that knowledge to shape a better future.
With the new year in, we are on the threshold of doing something new and can add to our lives what we had not done in the past. Hence, let’s take the lessons from the past year—both the successes and the setbacks—and use them as stepping stones to a brighter tomorrow.
Ringing in the new year isn’t just celebrating the passage of time—it’s about transformation. It is about expectation. It is about taking the initiative. It is all about doing something and redefining yourself.
Life is constantly evolving and changing fast. We need to align ourselves with the pace of time and the changes it brings with it. Don’t risk being left behind. Do you want to be the one who is stuck in the past, and rue the day that you didn’t act upon what you were supposed to? It is not advisable to risk being sidelined by time itself.
*An acclaimed author credited with having created a revolution in English skills training in India.
