Jack Canfield explains: How To Accelerate Your End Result

What are you ready to settle for?
Do you have your 101 goals for the rest of your life?
And how specific are your goals?

Enjoy this condensed talk!
Elena

Why Do We, and Should, Make the New Year's Resolutions List? - part 3 of 3

How to stay committed to your resolutions throughout the New Year

Your resolutions are part of your journey in becoming a happier, healthier and more successful person. You make them because you want to achieve more, become more, give more to yourself.

This is why you need to have a clear statement of the purpose of your resolutions:

1.     Have a clear mission

For what purpose do you want to be 6 kilos lighter, or go on the holidays of your dream? Is it because you want to change your wardrobe, or feel more confident? Is it because you want to feel independent and free?

Having clarity on that will give your energy and ongoing internal motivation.

2.     Create new, healthy habits – at home, at work, in your relationships

Our days are full of habits that we don’t even notice – the way we sit in the car, the way we eat at the table, the way we greet the family in the morning. You can install new habits that, by virtue of constant practice and repetition, will turn from conscious choices into inherent habits after 30 to 90 days of repetition: choose to reach for an apple, rather than chips or snack; choose to prepare a to-do list for the next day at the end of each day, or choose to get off the bus or train a stop earlier, and walk the remaining distance home, every Tuesday night. And kiss your partner good night every evening.

3.     Have resourceful daily rituals

What do you do when you wake up in the morning – do you lie down for “just a few minutes”, or do you get up, called by your mission? The order of habits you have, is your morning ritual. You can create a healthy, resourceful series of actions, starting with a reminder of your mission and purpose. Or by telling that great person in the mirror how amazing, inspiring and strong they are. Affirmations, as you know, are a very powerful tool. Your ritual may then continue with having a glass of water (and lemon juice), a brisk exercise or a jog in the park.

What do you choose to have as an evening ritual? Do you make a list of the things you are grateful for before you go to bed? And a list of your achievements…

When you align your mission, your habits and rituals with your goals, you will act in congruence with the person you want to become. And when you team your act with self-discipline, your New Year’s resolutions will become attainable, and your commitment and ability to succeed – a natural part of who you are.

So, start making the Resolutions list!

Elena

Your Coach to Success

Why Do We, and Should, Make New Year's Resolutions - part 1

Have you noticed how the week leading to Christmas, and the next one, leading to New Year's Eve, have something magical and optimistic and inspirational about them?
We become more generous, relaxed, connected with friends and family... And start making plans for bigger and better things to happen to us, start planning for a more fulfilling, different, and adventurous year ahead. 
This article, (split in several parts), will answer two major questions:
1) Why is it such a good time to make new plans?
2) How to keep committed to these resolutions throughout the new year.

What is so special about the time between Christmas and New Year's Eve? Why is it actually the right moment to make resolutions?
1. Time to close an old chapter
The end of the "old" year is the time to draw a line and have a good look at that past chapter of your life. Look back and analyse - what worked, what didn't, and in what area of your life have you had enough? The strongest internal motivation to achieve change is when you are fed up with the same old results, have had enough and want to put an end to it. Whether it is the "staple items": quit smoking, lose weight, be fitter, start a new relationship, or something unique and special to you, you know you are ready for a change. You are ready, because you can look back and the retrospective pile-up of negative experiences and emotions related to that unresourceful habit give you a strong trigger to move away from them.

Leave your pile of dirt in the year gone by

And what better opportunity to move away from that old thing, than when you step through a brand new door to your future, step into the New Year, New Beginning, New YOU!

Start a new chapter

To be CONTINUED with:

2. There is magic in the air - anything is possible
3. Generous and forgiving to Yourself
4. You are relaxed and happy

Elena
Your Coach to Success