 Happy New Month and I'm so excited to welcome you to another important episode of The Advocate, your Sunday reminder that important conversations are among the necessary tools for a Sena society. Today I'm going to be talking about the 2023 New Year Fours. Sage Hassan on the other hand is going to be talking about 2023 View. Suleiman will be talking about the 2023 elections and how it comes with a lot of innovations and a new voter demography. Elijah Felix, it's going to be talking about the 2023 General Elections in View, Sustainance and Decorum in Governance and Politicking. Today, as usual, I expect interesting conversations and we will be right back after the break. 2023 The New Year Fours One of the regular patterns I have seen with people towards the end of each year is making so much misguided noise about the incoming year. People just fantastically believe that the new year will bring new results to them simply because it's a new year. This is even what has kept us constantly where we are as a nation. We're getting closer to where Nigeria will decide our next set of leaders. We must lessen the noise and begin to re-engineer our mindsets. Thoughts create behaviors and behaviors create outcomes. Our fundamental problem so much lies in our thought pattern. Most people have lofty wishes for the forthcoming year 2023 with no actual well thought out plan. You know we've got to detach from writing a bunch of conventional resolutions that don't work. I mean if you think about it those things really do not work. I believe with no idea of doubt that our present leaders who may seem primitive understand how this thinking game works. If you can keep the people caged in the same limited thinking pattern then you can keep them externally caged. We need a paradigm shift in our way of thinking fundamentally. An average Nigerian has already been defeated in their mind due to a 40 thinking pattern. I dare say that if you're born into Nigeria I mean you already programmed to fail. I mean that's the sad reality you know. But however we're now less than 30 days away into the new year 2023. What are you going to do differently? What adjustments do you need to make? You must drop those old limiting beliefs and begin to pick up new ones. You must now detach yourself from disempowering thoughts and begin to embrace a new way of thinking. This is how I strongly believe that we can build a better 2023. And I'm going to turn to my advocates and pretty much just talk about how do we begin to build a new year. I mean there's a lot of noise you know whenever we come to December people keep saying things like oh the year is coming to an end. I didn't achieve anything. The next year is going to be a good year. I mean this new year I'm going to hammer. I'm going to blow. But when we end that new year they say the same thing. So it's almost the same pattern. So I'm just going to stop with Elijah. What do you think people can do to have a better year? Life coach year again. Good to have you. Anyway I'm going to see these things. Well let me first of all acknowledge 2023 as a special year for not just green Nigerians even Americans. Let me in Nigeria to introduce a new year where we're expecting a lot of things personally and also for the nation. Because we're having a new political era the end of a political era and the beginning of a new political era. So if it's actually going to be a new political era and that's up to win Nigerians to decide our future come 2023. And for the Americans those friends in the US you know towards the end of 2023 they will be talking about the end of an era to prepare them for their palmaries and then for their 2024 general elections presidential elections and all those things. So I see we are herding 2023. So for you to have a very wonderful 2023 you start now. If you have made mistakes or errors in 2022 or you've kept some stone on town or you've not been able to hit some milestone you don't have to kill yourself or beat yourself about it. You just have to strategically focus and plan not just plan for planning seek and see many of us have done a new resolution raise up your hand. That resolution thing supposed to be the moment you discover that you are lacking in somewhere you quickly take a resolution for your next step of next line of action. You don't have to wait till December 31st to take a new year resolution. You can start now taking a new resolution leave a day at the time. So what do you want to do tomorrow that will be different from what you've done before and that's leave a day at a time. Hit your successes for that day. If you don't hit your target for that day move on prepare for the next day continue and I'm sure if we continue like this 2023 will not just be successful year for we personally it's going to be for we collectively as a nation as we decide to choose our feet rightly in 2023. Fantastic. Samze, what do you have to say to that? Sage, first of all I cannot divorce people from hope and that's what that's what the resolution provides it gives you a sense of hope you know hope can be important you know in a sense but hope can also be just as important as it is important because you can have hope and it might be false hope you know so um near resolutions what they do is they give us a sense of hope they give us a sense of restarting something but this is this is my take how do you ensure that you don't repeat the patterns of the last year and the next year but the problem with human beings is you know we are neural beings you know what we see outside is you know it covers the neural um pathway so everything that we are has already been laid and like he said the key is for me the key is to lay new neural parts new neural points constantly continuously regularly so for me the key to any form of achievement must be the capacity with the ability to create a vision for yourself but it's much more than creating a vision it is actually mapping a vision in such a way that you make yourself sleep to that vision sleep to that mapping and then you vigorously focus on the mapping and it's like steps you do it every day every second every minute you can tell what will happen to you in December or what happens to you in February based on how you map yourself but most people we like to live on what's that they would like to live on the chance you know we like to if you happen you know I remember one time someone was talking to me and you wanted to move out of the country and then their brother or their cousin was selling them on there you go there you meet someone somebody went there and met somebody and the person helped them and I said but yeah you can't build your life on that thing that someone I might just go and I might just no no so this is the problem I think we have more deliberate yeah but not yeah thank you um before we get into another topical issue I'd like to turn it over to our friend um Silliman in Abuja let's hear what you have to say concerning this um thank you for having me good evening and good afternoon everyone um 2023 new year it is a year to look forward to as a Nigerians individually and as a nation a lot as up on this year already and 2023 is another year whereby Nigeria destiny is now placed in our hand so for individuals I can say that um for those for those goals that we said and were able to achieve close to them and for those that were unable to achieve I want to tell each and everyone of us that the achievement and milestone don't happen in a single year we can always take them over to the next year as they used to say in the and say now give up thank you so much Silliman um I mean what's the usable information here it's very simple um forget about Q sera sera which is what will be will be what will be will not be it's what you make be I mean say just talked about that it's important that you're intentional and you're deliberate with the things you're going to don't think about things that didn't work out 2022 and then begin to do away with those things and um set new goals think about what stopped you and then um envision 2023 and how that would likely stop you so that you can be fully ready for it and most importantly you should get your voter's card so that you can put his face we're going to take a short break now and Sami sage is going to join us after the break