The New Calendar Year : 2021

Every new calendar year is full of promises, surprises, challenges and so many unopened gifts 🎁.  2021 will be no different.  But it is definitely up to every individual how they will perceive it and more importantly what they will make of it!

2021 is a clean slate, a white piece of 📜 paper handed to us.  Let's write it and be an author of our own dreams, goals and plans.  We write, we recite.  Every word therein is a reflection of our thoughts and choices. 

It's we who make these important decisions.  Whether we want to ignore the shadows and bask in the sunshine 🌞 or sulk in the the darkness of our dark 🌑 thoughts💭 and ignore the golden 🌞 sunshine and golden opportunities.  Which will it be?

Just like 2020 is not coming back, neither will the rest of the years that passed us by long ago.The way you structure the new year will be the way you live with it.  It's more than a thought...... it's a desire.  An effort that will bring results, the results of your own choices.  

Wishing everyone a very productive and wholesome 2021.  A year to be always grateful for and proud of.

I spelled success with Determination

Success was my choice.  I wouldn't settle for less.  As I grew up it became a habit and developed into a lifestyle.  I had a vision and foresight for opportunities.  Every bubble of opportunity was seen as success.

I believed strongly in slow and steady.  I took one day at a time.  I took baby steps and that is how I planned my journey 💘. And that is how I planted my seeds for success.  That is the secret of how to pace my way to success.

Impatience and ingratitude are obstacles on our road to success.  I kept kicking them off with every stride in my journey 💘. If we extract these two ingredients from our recipe of success, we will never experience failure.  Failure is an invitation to another attempt at success.

Impossible 🤣!  That's a joke 😅.  

Impossible to me is a misspelled word.  Here is the correct spelling...' I am possible.'

I am farsighted.  I always knew exactly what I wanted.  I did not wait for it to happen.  I worked towards it.  I walked towards it with boots of courage and patience and MADE it happen.  I was so determined.

I spelled success with Determination

I expelled fear with persistence!!

I wrote her and I became her !!!!

PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

PAST is something to talk about,

Present is so much to talk about and

Future is some more to talk about !

Let's not make life about the past

Let's create something to talk about in the present,

Let's vision what else we can keep  talking about in the future.

Talking about the past is a characteristic of those individuals who have messed up their 🎁 present and have no concrete plans for future.  Our past lays the foundation for a gift called present wherein comes the vision for future.  

Carry the past to the present and push it to the future.  Plant something yesterday, to nourish today and harvest tomorrow.

Those who keep talking about the past,

Built nothing to hold on to in the present and

Have no foresight for tomorrow.

Real Issues

ICOSF's Real Issues is an achievement.  We are the achiever.  Together we have taken that first step to build the community.  We have taken a realistic approach to solve real issues to prepare ourselves to face reality.

We have set up yet another milestone.  ICOSF's Real Issues is about being real and facing reality in a real world.

We are the change makers.  We always move forward to embrace the changes that will improve the quality of life in the community based on Islamic ideology.  

We are cutting down on negativity as our first step to improvement.  

Why? Wonder why ?

Why?  I wonder why ?

Why are we so crooked and yet blame the world for crookedness ?

Why do we blame others and yet take no responsibility ?

Why it is normal for us to do certain things and absolutely unacceptable when others do it?

Why are we above law and others aren't?

Why our own situation is a test while others are paying for their deeds ?

Why are we so perfect and others are far from perfection ?

Why our excuses are valid reasons and others helplessness are flimsy excuses?

WHY O' WHY ?????

Why I have never been able to understand this ?

I have never been able to find the answers to my own questions all my life.  

LET THEM KNOW.........!

Let them know.  Say it all.  Leave nothing unsaid.  Let nothing sit in your chest or nest in your head.  Say it in words, say it in actions.  Make a difference.  Be a carrier and put the message across.  

If anyone has made a difference to you or someone else, let them know.  It's an incentive.  Be motivating.  Encourage good deeds, good thoughts and good actions.  This itself is a good deed. It's a mother of good deeds for from here ensues more and more goodness.  

Let them know, tell them all.  Don't keep it to yourself.  Make others feel good about themselves. Good deeds attract more good deeds.  Be attracted to good deeds, be attracted to good people, be attracted to good soul.  

Spread goodness, sprinkle kindness and spark compassion.  Let them know happiness, let them know the joy they have brought, let them know the meaning they have added to someone's life.  Let them know what they mean to you and what they mean to the world.  

Let them know.  Don't hide.  Don't shy.  Let them know how you feel, how much you love, how much you care and how much you want to share.

Love is in the air and so is sadness.  Let sadness go by but reach for joy.  Have eyes for love and hope for joy.  Share your tender feelings......... let it out !

LET THEM KNOW.........!

Dreaming with others

Dreams can turn into reality when you pursue them wholeheartedly.  But my dream is an entirely different texture.  I dream about others, with others.  I live to help others realize their dreams.  I am their companion while they chase their dreams.

In this lies embedded my joy.  Yes, it not only sounds weird, it is weird.  Who ever heard of such absurdity.  But everyone has definitely heard of bringing happiness.  This is my way of doing so.  

Talking about dreams, oh no, don't get me wrong!  I don't sell dreams.  I am no dream merchant.  I just walk along and make one believe that their hopes are possible.  I hold their ✋ hands, steady their steps and help them walk down the path to their dreams. No don't take me literally.  It's just an expression.  But what I mean to say is, I am with them and extend them the much needed support and quietly disappear as they approach their dream and are about to turn them into REALITY. 

But that's not what I want to say.  That's what I want to do and that's what I do.  Here comes the part where I go overboard.  I sound desperate, eager, interested, too nice, too kind and so much more.  I shatter my own dream.  I wasn't helping.  Now I am hurting!

Therefore, I dream alone.  And that's exactly how I started becoming all that I am. By helping others, I built my own dreamland.  I lived up to my own dream.  Here is my message, Keep dreaming!  Dream alone !