2009 New Year Resolution Plan

As I write this final blog post for 2009, I am in a place of awe and humility. I am grateful. I have so much to be grateful for and I am enjoying the moments as they string themselves together to create a day of absolute contentment and well being.

Earlier in the day, as I thought about how to conclude the year and as I prepared for my final radio show of 2008, I reveled in all the amazing things that had happened to me this past year.  A few to wit:

• I stepped into coaching full time
• I closed out my law practice
• I feel so much more at peace and in control of my life
• I discovered twitter
• My husband set up my website
• I made phenomenal relationships on Twitter.
• Social networking has become part of my daily habit and joy
• I started blogging for the first time
• I got my blog and website where I want it.
• I have attracted so many wonderful clients.

Overall, I have had a wonderful transition year – it has turned out better than I expected.

As I mulled over all of this, I realized that I am finally living my life, I am not living my future, I am not living my past, I am not living other’s expectations of me. I am not even living my dreams. I am living wonderfully right here and right now.

From this pace of awesomeness, I put together a list of profound steps just for you. These steps, if you follow them closely and review them often, will help you make profound progress in walking in your desires and wants in 2009.

1. Start out with gratitude to take stock of all the wonderful and amazing things that have happened to you this past year.
2. Know the wants behind your wants. For instance, you may want to loose weight but the real reason is that you do not feel attractive that your higher weight and you want to feel more attractive overall.  This is how you honor your wants.
3. Align your wants with your values. Do you understand you core value system? What do you value? Make sure your wants are aligned with the ideals you cherish the most. This is how you effectively set your intention.
4. Pay attention to your feelings. Understand that when you feel bad, it is your emotional guidance system telling you that that the thoughts you are thinking are not serving you.
5. Activate imagination. Use your imagination to experience what you want in the now. Taste, feel, touch, hear, smell and see what you want now. Make it real in your mind now.
6. Activate creativity. Experience your imagination by applying an expressive form to it. Write it out, Draw it out. Sculpt it out. Knit it out. Sing it out. Express it in some sort of art form no matter what it looks like or sounds like.
7. Positive self talk. Make sure that you develop new, more positive mantras in your mind and speak it out loud as well as in your mind. Reprogram your mind. Yes you can.
8. Project this thinking into your future. 10 years from now how would this exercise program have paid off? What will it be like to have a solid ten or fifteen year habit of consistent exercise?  Really tap into that future. Not just a month from now. Now pull that future into today’s reality.
9. Understand what authentic happiness is. It is not a mask to cover up your feelings. It is not just ecstasy. It is your inner being bubbling up from a place of content well being and knowing within you.
10. Now that you understand authentic happiness, follow it. Follow your bliss
11. Then take action. Take inspired action. When you take action, follow this principle: Ready Fire Aim. If you first wait until your aim is perfect, you will not succeed. Go ahead and fire. Your actions will self correct. Remember, forget perfection. Follow passion.
12. As you take action, focus your intention on what you imagine and what you want and bringing it into the present. Your now.

Happy New Year. May all your dreams come true. May you understand that you are the most precious being in your own world. May Peace rule your heart and actions. May happiness be your guide. May love flourish in your life and in the life of your loved ones. Be blessed.

Thank you for being part of my life.