THE NEW YEAR AND THE FUTURE

Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years. The most celebrated mark of time is the beginning of a new year. However, despite the high rating of the new year celebrations, it is the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months that make the year whatever it would be.

Just as the future is upon us, the new year is now a reality. Whether we have thought of it or not, the actions we have taken in the little time the year began cannot be moved back to 2018, neither can they be pushed forward to the coming year. As our actions matter greatly, our inactions could equally cause a great damage or success. It is for this course that Future Begins Now wishes us all a prosperous and productive new year.

We are still committted to helping the younger generation reach their potential even through our mentoring projects. 2018 was a good year for us but we hope to serve our society better this year through the means we have chosen which is reaching out to secondary school students in our community through mentoring and personal development training. We do hope to accomplish the great plans we have for this year and challenge you to do the same. We hope that we all would not have a lot of unaccomplished projects and unresolved resolutions as we had at the end of 2018 at the end of this new year.

2019 has begun already and it is not too early to start working.
Have a productive year!
FBN Team.

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