Move..Get Out The Way
I can't believe it's that time of the year again! You guessed it...new year resolution time. If you are anything like me you make all of these promises to work out, budget, eat healthier, not go postal on your much needed job, be nicer to aunt Thelma even though she continues to mispronouce your name after you've been on this planet for 30+ years and blah, blah, blah, blah. (Don't laugh because you know I'm telling the truth.) Deep down you really hate the beginning of a new year because you know good and well that by the time Feb 1st rolls around you won't even remember what resolution #1 was. Can I get an amen?
Do you w
ant to know the secret to fulfilling promises to yourself? The answer is YOU! We are our worst enemies. How? Because we block our own success with negative thoughts and behaviors (like the ones you resolved to change at the beginning of each year). Well my goal for 2006 is to get the hell out of my own way and I'm starting by picking up a copy of Jovita Jenkins appropriately titled book, "Get Out of Your Own Way!" A former resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, Jenkins doesn't waste any time with her easy to follow prescription for creating a more compelling future. So if you really want to make a difference in 2006, move...and get out of your own way. Happy New Year.
posted by C J Domino @ 10:18 AM
2 Comments:
Tell me about it. I resolved a long time ago to stop making new year resolutions because I make them on Dec 31 and break them on Jan 1. But making goals, that's good, getting out of your own way, surrendering to God, that's even better.
I used to make resolutions to start the year off right, to not do this and stop doing that, but it never worked for me. I would fall off my high horse sometime around the second week, if I managed to stay on that long. Now, I do make resolutions, but I do not start them right off on January 1st. I take my time and try to focus more on the changes that I would like to make, or what I am doing well that I would like to continue doing than what day I will start them on. I actually like the time between Christmas and New Year's Day, because it has slowed down from all the rush and hurry of pre-Christmas, but we haven't quite gotten back into the hustle of "real life", because there is still have one more holiday to celebrate. I use it as a time for reflection on the past year, and for looking ahead into the next, and figuring out what I want next year to look like. It is not a perfect system, I still have resolutions that I have made and haven't quite mastered, but, it is a much more successful and forgiving method for me, anyway.
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