10 New Year’s Resolution Ideas for 2016

What will you write for the next chapter of your life? It’s entirely up to you. Take the first step to make sure that it’s a
goodgreat chapter by setting New Year’s resolutions. You’ll find 10 ideas for your New Year’s resolutions, below.

1. Start a Meditation Practice.
There are scientific studies that show the many benefits of meditating. To name just a few, meditating helps to improve your mood, it reduces stress, it lessens anxiety, and it even increases your brain’s grey matter — which is involved in muscle control, sensory perception, decision making, and self-control. In addition, once you get the hang of it,meditating is made easy to do.
2. Learn Something New Each Day.
Set the resolution to learn something new every day in order to have a better understanding of the world and how it works. Fortunately, the internet makes it incredibly easy to learn new things.
3. Pick Up a Hobby.
Did you know that having a hobby is good for you? Hobbies can lower your stress levels, boost your brain power, improve your ability to focus, and more. Therefore, in 2016, start a new hobby.
4. Play More.
Play is an important source of relaxation and stimulation for adults. In addition, it can make you more creative and productive. Bring more play into your life by making it a New Year’s resolution.

5. Eat Fewer Calories.
There are many reasons why most of us should set a resolution of eating fewer calories. The most obvious reason is to lose weight. After all, carrying excess weight puts us at a greater risk of a whole range of serious health problems, including heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers.
With all of the contradictory information out there on what to eat, sometimes it’s hard to decide what to do when you want to lose weight. I try to keep things simple. When I want to lose weight, I just eat less. I recommend you do the same. If you gained weight in 2015, resolve to eat smaller portions in 2016.
 Try eating until you’re satisfied, instead of full. Also, eat more slowly to allow your body to send you cues about fullness.

Other reasons for eating less are ethical–that is, social justice, animal rights issues, and environmental concerns–but we won’t go into those here.
6. Write a Business Plan.
Make 2016 the year you stop thinking about starting a business and you start taking action –it’s OK if it’s a small business on the side. The first step to take is to write a business plan. Once you get your ideas down on paper, you’ll be that much more motivated to turn those ideas into reality.
7. Move More.
It doesn’t matter what you choose to do: join a sports team; get a pedometer and take at least 10,000 steps a day; get up every 20 minutes and stretch; or join a dance class. Just move! Living a sedentary life dumbs you down, it makes it more likely that you’ll be overweight, and it puts you at a higher risk of depression.
Think of the following quote from the movie "Madagascar" : “Move it nice and sweet and sassy, alright!”
8. Read More Books.
I read 30 books in 2015, and I’m glad I did. The time I spent reading was enjoyable, and I feel a sense of accomplishment since all of the books I chose to read are recognized as “literature”.
I’ll definitely be reading lots of books in 2016, and I encourage you to do the same. I
9. Be  More Grateful.
If you haven’t climbed aboard the gratitude bandwagon yet, this is the year to do it. There are studies that shows that gratitude can make you 25% happier. Think about that for a second: 25% happier!
Being grateful will also help you to overcome adversity, improve the quality of your sleep, and allow you to get along better with others. For next year, resolve to be more grateful.
10. Stop Procrastinating.
If you didn’t achieve your goals this year, procrastination was the likely culprit. Make 2016 the year  you stop procrastination and start getting things done. This will help you to ensure that you won’t be sitting there at the end of next year wondering why you never got around to working on your goals.

Written by  Marelisa Fabrega
 Marelisa Fabrega is a lawyer and entrepreneur. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., as well as a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Palestine will be graveyard’ for Jews-Islamic leader

The leader of the Islamic State terrorist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, issued on Saturday afternoon an explicit threat against Israel, the first such indication from the organization’s head that the Jewish state was on his agenda.
 n an audio recording released on social media, al-Baghdadi warned that his forces will “soon meet [the Jews] in Palestine,” Israel’s Channel 2 television reported.

The terrorist group’s elusive head added that “Israel will pay a heavy price at the hands of our fighters,” the report said.

“Palestine will not be your land or your home,” al-Baghdadi continued, according to the Ynet news site. “It will be a graveyard for you. Allah has gathered you in Palestine so that the Muslims may kill you.”

“The Jews thought that we forgot about Palestine and diverted our attention from it. Never, Jews. We have not forgotten Palestine for a moment,” said al-Baghdadi.

APC will take over Bayelsa State-Primate Ayodele

Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele is the founder and spiritual head of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church. In this interview with select journalists, he released prophecies for 2016.
LEADERSHIP NEWSPAPERS: As 2015 comes to an end, what do you foresee in 2016?
PRIMATE AYODELE: "I see Saudi Arabia being attacked by terrorists. I see that Ebola is still very much around Africa. Coca Cola will rebrand and must pray against fire outbreak. Political enemies will disorganise the Bayelsa State governor so that his second term bid can crumble. But if Governor Dickson seeks the face of God and work very hard, he will win a second term. But if he relaxes, the APC candidate will shock him. Let us pray against attacks on our pipelines."
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Unfortunately, a lot of Nigerians will believe these clowns. Adeboye. Oyedepo, TB Joshua and all the self-acclaimed prophets in Nigeria will make intelligent guesses with very high probability, then people come around to stamp fulfilled prophecies on these bogus claims. You hear statements like, "My Daddy tells me that 20 unemployed youths in this congregation will get employed before the mid-2016" and their unthinking herds will shout amen. None of them would rationalize the statement as mere guess and not prophecies. Out of a population of over 1 million people, the odds are high that a lot of unemployed people would be present and definitely some will get jobs within 6 months. Why can't these fakes mention names? At least, going by the bible, prophecies were direct and specific.
Why do these people always conduct their miracles at controlled spaces like crusade grounds, camps, within churches, etc? According to the bible, Jesus went to the blinds on the streets, he raised up the dead in their homes, but these fakes will arrange miracles but the gullible majority will not exercise a little jot of reason to question these claims.
I just hope Nigerians will start asking questions of their leaders. Unless and until we get to that stage, we shall continue to be willing preys in the hands of scammers - political and religious.

Compiled by Olu Adegoke