Wow, 2010. Here it comes! As I sit and type this, the New Year is just 5 hours away. I have a few challenges for you as you leave 2009 and head into a new year and new decade.
1. Take some time to look back over 2009. Use a calendar, a journal, Outlook or wherever else you might have written down what you did this last year. Time to take stock of the good and bad.
- What were your successes? Give yourself credit for those. A pat on the back is due you for every single step forward, every inch of progress, every lesson learned, every obstacle overcome.
- What did you hope to accomplish that didn't happen? Why? What could you have done differently?
- What changes happened in your life this year? Are you in the same place, a better place, or a worse place?
2. What do you want your life to be like in 2010? Think about your fitness, your health, your character, your family, your play time, how you are going to take care of you and put yourself first. (I didn't mention jobs, money, or material stuff on purpose!)
- On January 1, start your year in a way that reflects and jumpstarts your year to reflect what you want out of the year. How you start the year can set you up for success or failure. Make a statement about your life, your year. They are under your control. You make the decision to make your life and year what you want them to be.
- For example, if you want to be fitter this year, then you make sure you start your year with a workout on JANUARY 1st. No if, ands, or buts about it. Whatever qualities and activities you want for this upcoming year, do something about them on the very first day of the year.
3. Pull out your Life List and SLOWLY read over it. Don't do this in a hurry. Take your time, in a quiet, relaxed, peaceful setting.
- Read one item, play with it in your mind, imagine it, see it.
- Add to your Life List. Not just big things, but small ones as well.
- Choose 5 things on your Life List that you WILL do in 2010. Write them down on a poster board or some other somewhat large surface (write them on a white board, make a painting of it, paint them on a wall as a mural). Something that will last all year. Post it somewhere you will see it all the time.
4. Start immediately living your Life List. Making one is nice. Picking out 5 things is great. But living it - that's what it's all about!!!
- Do something on your List in the first week of 2010.
- Have another one accomplished within the first 2 months.
- Another one by June.
- Another by September.
- And one more by the end of the year.
- You may need to revise your 5 picks in order to do this. Decide now (not in a month) which ones you will do by each target date. If you just make a list and hope, you will probably end up staring at 5 things you never got around to come November. It doesn't have to be that way. So don't let it.
No more excuses. No more procrastinating. No more waiting for the "right time" and more "convenient" time. It's time NOW to live life to its fullest.
It's never too late to be who you might have been. George Eliot, English novelist (1819 - 1880)
I've already decided. I'm going to have a great year, live my dreams, and reach amazing new goals.
How about you?
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