7 Strategies To Make 2015
The Best Year Of Your Life
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“I don’t do resolutions,” my friend told me.
“No-one ever keeps them so I just don’t see the
point.” It’s not an uncommon attitude. Nor an
unreasonable one when you look at the stats…
80% of people have broken their resolutions by
the end of January. But while we can choose any
day of the year to make a fresh start or begin a
new habit, there’s something about the first day of
the new year that calls us to think a little deeper
about the future we aspire to live in to, what we
really want for ourselves… and what we don’t!
More connectedness; less conflict.
More vitality; less lethargy.
More security; less debt.
More confidence; less doubt.
More fun; less stress.
More success; less struggle.
The question is: what will it take? If you look at the
happiest and more successful people you know
(the former being a measure of the latter) you’ll
often find they do things others don’t. They are
clear about what they want, focused on getting it,
prepared to challenge themselves and persistent
when plans don’t work out. If you want to MAKE
2015 YOUR YEAR OF LIVING BRAVELY take time
now to make a plan so you start strong and stay
brave, no matter what.
Know Your Big Why
Change is difficult, even change for
the better. If it wasn’t everyone would
be changing those aspects of their
relationships, finances, jobs, and health that
pull them down day after day, year after
year. The reason they don’t is because to
change anything we have to give up the
pay-off of sticking with the status quo.
Emotional familiarity. Mental complacency.
Physical comfort. Short-term gratification.
Nothing is more powerful than a strong
sense of purpose. So always connect
your goals, ambitions and resolutions to
things that fuel your sense of purpose and
align with your deepest values. Doing so
will help you to dig deeper and exit your
comfort zone when the going gets tough
and habitual ways of thinking and acting
threaten to pull you back to the status quo
and those well-worn excuses that keep it so
fixed in place.
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Focus!
Aiming high is great, but deciding you want
to run a mar athon, finish your MBA, change
jobs, renovate your home, and write a book
all in the next year can leave you bouncing
about like Tigger on Red Bull, not quite
sure which direction you are going. Instead,
set yourself up for success by focusing
on one major goal at a time, not twentyone. Distraction is a goal killer! So too is
overwhelm and exhaustion.
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