Achieve More Success Without Setting New Year’s Resolutions!
January 3rd, 2008 Posted by: Chaszey Sandhriel
A few years ago the Learning Annex asked me to teach another class on procrastination. I remember thinking that it was a paradox and contradiction for anyone to teach a procrastination class. How could I get a procrastinator to a procrastinating class without them procrastinating to sign up in the first place?
For those of you who have studied goal setting you have learned that our New Year’s Resolutions are out the door and forgotten about after only 3 weeks into the New Year. Why do we seem to give up so early and how can we avoid it?
The reasons fro delaying goals, forgetting about them, changing them and so on are endless. One of the main reasons, however, is as follows: People have a tendency to put way too many goals on their plate, most people also are trying to accomplish these goals without any constructive and productive support. We are our worst critics and get down on ourselves at the slightest sign of failure. And then we have those closest to us who rub in our faces: “I told you so.”
There has to be a solution to changing our lives for the better - what is it?
First, go inside for wisdom and all answers. No, I’m not joking. We’re all different about how we look at goals and what they mean to us. One individual may have nightmares just thinking about a test, to another a test can be his greatest motivation to studying. For me personally the tighter a deadline and the harder the task, the more excited I get to achieving the goal. To others a deadline may be the most frightening thing ever.
For example, the most common New Year’s resolution of losing that holiday weight, or perhaps that of several holidays ago. No matter where you look you’ll find articles about how to lose that weight and what diet fad is new in Hollywood. In my humble opinion wanting to lose weight is the most useless and stupid New Year’s Resolution there is. It is cruel and rigid on your body, not realistic, causes overwhelm and is a pure path on putting your body straight behind bars. Prisons are meant to be broken out of, especially after those first 3 weeks in January are over and all New Year’s Resolutions have lost their appeal.
So instead of sending yourself to prison on the first of each year, try this instead: Your one and only goal is to always feel amazingly great and fit.
If feeling great and feeling fit is your objective, then the scale has no power to meddle in your business. If you make a specific number your goal of weight to lose, then the scale wins. Instead learn that your body doesn’t care if you tell it that it needs to be a 120 pounds or 150 pounds, your body only cares that it is well-cared for, nourished, satisfied, loved, hugged, tended to and used for what it was intended.
Are you getting it?
Order your body to take care of the weight loss part automatically. It was first created to work for you at its optimal capacity. The only thing you have to do is to pay attention to it, to listen to it, to love it and not to treat it right. Once your body feels that you are cooperating by showing it respect, it has no choice but to give you the same in return by bringing out the most gorgeous king or queen that you are already.
So this year make only one New Year’s Resolution: Respect yourself and your body, love yourself and your body, pay attention to your Soul’s wisdom instead of other people. Believe that you are protected by divine order. And the doors which open easiest for you in 2008 are the ones you are meant to walk through.
If you can make this ONE New Year’s Resolution and stick to it each and every day, you will come to the end of 2008 and be amazed, surprised, and ecstatic at how easy things fell in place for you this year. Almost as if by magic…
Wishing you a phenomenal year!
