How To Achieve Success Without Setting New Year's Resolutions
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?
If you've ever studied goal setting or the setting of New Year's resolutions, you undoubtedly must have heard that the average New Year's Resolution is out the door after the first 3 weeks into the New Year. Why is this?
The reasons are endless; some delay goals, some forget about them, others change them and so on. The main reasons are different for each person; a faster explanation may be as follows: Most people are putting too many goals on their list and aim too high and then try to attempt the path on their own and without support. In addition, most people are too hard with themselves and at the slightest inkling of what feels like failure, they throw it all away. To add to this misery most people have a tendency to share their ambitious goals with those that have no business of knowing about them in the first place, because it's as if they are just waiting in the bushes to pounce out and say: "Ha! I knew you couldn't do it."
There is a way to achieve ultimate success in 2008!
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.
Let's look at the infamous New Year's resolution to losing weight. It never fails that we are inundated with yet one more diet plan at the beginning of each New Year. To make losing weight a New Year's resolution in my opinion is stupid. Not only is it cruel and harsh on the body, it is especially unrealistic, overwhelming and an attempt to look into an attempt to put yourself into a strip down prison. One we're meant to break out of after the first 3 weeks in January.
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.
When your object of desire becomes to feel great and fit, then you've ordered your scale to take a back seat and the scale has lost its power (because you no longer care what it has to say about you). If, however, you make a specific number a goal to achieve, then you've hired your scale to be the CEO of your body. Just like employees don't care as much about the company achieving its financial goals as they care about being treated with love and respect, your body's members want to feel the same. All your body wants is to be appreciated, cared for, well-fed (not over-fed), loved, cuddled, paid attention to and used for its original intention (to get you through life gloriously).
Are you getting all of this?
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.
Make only ONE New Year's Resolution this year and let it be the following: Love and respect yourself, listen to your Higher Being's wisdom instead of other people and obey it with gladness and joy in your heart. Always believe that you are truly divinely protected and so is everyone else. The doors you are meant to walk through in 2008 are those that open the easiest.
By the time you get to the end of 2008 and if you have faithfully held to this one desire, you will be in ecstasy, joy and amazement at how easy things fell into place for you this year. It's pure magic indeed.
Wishing you a phenomenal year! Author: Chaszey Sandhriel :: Hits: 1 :: Added: Mon Jan 07 2008 ::
