It's a new year and the advertisements for A New You abound.
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A New Year's resolution is a commitment you make to yourself
to create positive change. That can include breaking bad habits, making
lifestyle changes and tackling new projects. All are resolutions from
which the popular term A New You has evolved.
A New You that 25% of the population will abandon in the
first 15 weeks according to statistics. Now that's depressing. What
in the world is it that keeps us stuck in old patterns when we truly
want new changes? Answer: Our mindset.
How are you entering 2007? What is your mindset - your mental
attitude that influences every aspect of your life? What is your mind
habitually set to?
When you shift your car into Drive it moves. How well it runs
depends on the maintenance you've given it. But the gear Drive lets
it move forward. If you plan to move forward in 2007 you must first
let go of 2006 and any accompanying concerns
or fears attached to it. Take it out of Reverse - it's over
and completed. It's time to move on.
Now consciously move the gearshift from Park to Drive. Nobody
can do this for you. It's your car and you are the driver - you make
the decisions. If you choose to keep it in Park you will soon take
on the "victim mentality" which leads to the "poor me" mentality.
Have you ever seen a car that has been parked and abandoned for a
long time? It rusts, the gears stick, weeds grow up around it.
Think of yourself as a well-maintained car. What type appeals
to you - sleek, sporty, hot, sophisticated, practical? It's you. You
choose. How do you want to move through 2007? Choose again - with
style, comfort, adventure, finely tuned, safe and sound? How will
you handle the turns and the unexpected around the next curve - with
grace and ease or with panic and fear? The car is you. You choose.
To break the habit of repeating an old worn-out
and useless pattern requires an acute awareness and motivating desire.
In the movie, The Pursuit of Happyness, Will Smith portrays
Chris Gardner and the story of how Gardner went from a single dad
with nothing to achieve his dream of financial independence. In a
recent interview Gardner says he made it because of one thing -
he made a conscious choice to.
When asked what he tells people who are down and out and in dire
circumstances, he replies, "I tell them the
Cavalry ain't coming."
In other words you are responsible for your mindset, your choices,
your life. Gardner's life proves that it's not what happens to you
it's what you make of it. It's your attitude in your current circumstances
that carries you to a set of new circumstances.
Make 2007 the best year ever. Only you
can.
"You
take your life into your own hands and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame." Erica Jong
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