New Year's Resolutions!

Did you make resolutions for this year? As the year kicks off, you may have determined that in order to be where you want to be next year, you'll need to kick it off in high gear yourself. The challenge is, somewhere around the end of January, you are like an unconditioned runner in a 15K race.... you are panting and sweating and already starting to believe you will never get to the finish line. So, how to keep yourself motivated?


Incorporate positive messages in your day every single day. Here are some of my favorites:

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
- Aristotle

QUESTION: WHat do you do repeatedly? Is it something that reaffirms your commitment to live better or is it something that works against it.... Do you practice healthy living, eating, sleeping, entertainment activities, relationships?

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
- Dale Carnegie

MY QUESTION: Are you a positive thinker? Or, are you positive only when things are going well? What about when you receive unflattering information, get bad news, have someone tell you they don;t think you can achieve whatever you want. Does it stop you cold like a mountain that magically sprouts up in front of your car while you are driving? What do you do? Doubt yourself? Give up? Use someone else's rejection to motivate you more?


“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.”
- Nelson Mandela

MY QUESTIONS: Are you afraid of failure or, what's worse, are you afraid of success? Examine your own attitudes and behaviors. Do you self sabotage? Do you think you are worthy of happiness, fulfillment, healthy love, money, success, peace? Before you point the finger at those around you and accuse them for not understanding you, how much time do you actively spend developing and loving yourself?



And finally, “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”

MY QUESTIONS and thoughts: Something is impossible until someone proves it to be possible. Do you believe in yourself? Do you look for validation over what you believe to be true? Are you willing to take a risk, beat the odds, and try. If you fail, will you get right back up and start again? The bottom line to staying motivated to do anything is to be able to take chances, persevere and in all cases know how to laugh at yourself. This year, if you resolve to do anything, resolve that no matter what, you will never ever ever give up on Y-O-U!
- Arthur C. Clarke