How to Go from Rocky Resolutions to Rock-Solid Reality
It seems to me that New Year’s Resolutions are a lot about just hoping it
happens. Everyone talks about them from say Dec 21st-ish until about January
10th -ish and then everyone goes back to doing what they’ve been doing. Sound
familiar? Be honest. The reason change doesn’t happen is we don’t have a strategy
for creating the change. This is a set-up for sabotage in my opinion.
For a long time I wrote out my resolutions every year, but it never really worked
for me.. I wasn’t really jazzed by my resolutions. Honestly, I usually felt like a
big, fat, failure – “Oh, these things again – exactly what I couldn’t get done last
year.” I never really looked at them; they sorda bothered me probably because they
seemed like “obligations” rather than “exciting desires.”
Then I was introduced to the idea of creating a 1 year vision instead of
making resolutions. This visioning wasn’t just about “shoulds”, but about what
I really WANTED. (I think I was a little afraid to make that claim in the past). It was a
“holistic” way of looking at what I wanted – my career, family, friends, health,
personal time and money desires. I started to get it – all of it works together. Each
area isn’t independent; if one area suffers the whole picture (which I realized was
my life) was being affected in some way.
The best thing about ENVISIONING the year was that to see it, I had to FEEL
it. Whoa. I noticed that I wasn’t really giving myself much credit for what I
could actually get done in a year. I was locked into a “yearly routine” that I had been
living out for a long time. But having to create a vision of what the year would look
like allowed me to start to GO BIG. Seasonal sections dropped and my energy un-
blocked. My creative side started going crazy and I really took the time to SEE.
The 1 year vision was a way for me to tap into what I REALLY wanted. My
heart beats a little faster after I read it and I feel a tingle in my stomach. Now THAT
is energy that my yearly list of resolutions can’t create. (By the way, my vision stays
with me more on a daily basis because of this feeling, rather than just sitting in my
sock drawer.)
Another trick I use is I write it in the present tense… same day, one year
later. For this year my 1 year vision read 2007 and as I read it back to myself I was
reading about all the things I’d ALREADY accomplished in my career, my new
marriage, my family, my friends, my money over the past year (which of course
haven’t actually happened yet).
Try it and really FEEL what it is like when you read it back to yourself. It is
a great step to beginning to align your heart, your head and your body – it is a pull
into action. It is also about building a bridge of trust; that you do know what you
want and how to go about getting it.
Heather Dominick, “The Energy Expert” is a nutrition and energy
specialist with over 10 years of teaching and coaching experience. Heather’s
primary focus is in helping others identify sources for increasing physical
energy and making permanent lifestyle changes. To sign up to receive your own 20
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