Strive to do good this year

These are some of the New Year’s resolutions that you might have made and hope to accomplish by the end of the year.  Granted, it will not be easy to achieve whatever goal you set for yourself, especially if it is one to do with kicking a stubborn habit such as binge drinking or chain smoking. But you can surely take it one day at a time. Do not grow weary. Do not give up. Adopt tenacity as your motto. Refuse to entertain failure, even if you previously failed to achieve the goal you set for yourself. More importantly, adopt selflessness and give a voice to the voiceless and the marginalised. Better still, you may want to adopt the list of nine things Pope Francis suggested his staff should do, when he addressed them on Christmas eve:

1. Take care of your spiritual life, your relationship with God, because this is the backbone of everything we do and everything we are.