A new year is here. What are we going to create? How will it unfold: Personally? Professionally? Leisurely? Spiritually? Health wise? Money wise? What are you going to do to\How will you make 2009 a meaningful year? A self-defining year? A transformative year?
Most people start the year by creating New Year’s resolutions because it’s the expected thing to do. But most people, according to the research, lose their resolve along the way.
The percentages differ slightly, depending on the source, but most of the research suggests that 68% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions and only 22% keep them.
The bottom line is this: New Year-ology, as it is currently practiced, is a prescription for failure!
So, we encourage you to stop being a New Year-ologist and become a New You-ologist. Personal transformation is a day-by-day experience. And it’s something that requires year round immersion.
In her personal transformation book, The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron shares her philosophy about change: “Spiritual hedging, like fence straddling, becomes uncomfortable the longer we try to sit on itBut moving forward has its own discomfort. Is it any wonder why many of us teeter-totter between change and stagnation. We prefer to straddle the fence as long as we can?”
We encourage you to leave behind the once-a-year mentality of New Year-ology, and become New You-ologists. We call this ‘new you process’ spiritual obstetrics. It means being reborn every single day. It means giving birth to the new you each day. It means turning resolutions into revolutions.
Resolutions that workhave five things in common. Personal transformation life coaches all over the world agree that resolutions which have a high success rate are those that:
- are meaningful to us;
- are consistent with our core values;
- resonate with who we want to be;
- hold some enjoyment and are rewarding for us;
- seem manageable and possible.
And there’s another benchmark which has made the list for the first time this year, coming in at #6:
- Resolutions that have a high success rate are those which have a spiritual component.
And we’d like to put in one last criteria as #7:
- Envision yourself achieving your resolutions, using every single one of your emotions and senses! Create the feeling that it is already real and you are experiencing it in action!
If you’ve already made New Year’s resolutions, match them against these seven success factors. If they fit, you are well on your way to turning resolutions into revolutions.
On the other hand, it there are areas that don’t match up, set new goals. You will increase your chances of success dramatically!
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