A new year on its own, without any positive action on your part to exhibit an equal reaction, as Albert Einstein put it, will not bring with it something different and exciting compared to the previous year.

Look, your partner/boss/betraying friend is not all of a sudden going to be the best person on earth simply because it's a new year.

Catch this: Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing in life ever happens by chance.

Everything is the result of an effort. 

"What? What about a lotto jackpot winner?"

Oh, I see. Even a lottery jackpot winner has to put in an effort to decide on the numbers, enter the numbers and check the results.

The year 2017 brings absolutely nothing different with it. If you want something different, you must wake up, get up and make it happen!

You just can't wish for a better life and think it will fall like manna from heaven simply because it's 2017.

You need to make that better life happen.

Today, being a CHOOSEDAY, I double dare and challenge you to make a CHOICE to make things happen in your life! 

Fannie Zim is a practicing and Admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa.