t happens every January. With the start of a
new year, fueled with fresh ambition, New
Year’s Resolutions are etched and the passion to achieve new heights in health, love, finances and life peaks. Give it a week or two and many well-intentioned achievers toss their goals aside and slip back into their comfortable lives. Sound familiar? Perhaps the failure comes from the result of a sub-par goal mindset. Ready for upgrade? Then read on.
What if 2017 could be different? What if you allowed space for your beautiful soul to help you create a rich life? Let’s connect your heart, mind and soul and infuse the new year and the new chapter of your life with passion, love, and commitment. Follow these simple steps to creating a beautiful, authentic, soul-inspired life.
1. Before writing a “to-do” list for 2017, purify your intentions and first write down how you really want to feel. How do you want to feel when you wake up every morning? How do you want to feel when you look in the mirror? How do you want to feel in your relationships? Do you want to feel beautiful, connected, healthy, strong, confident, and centered? Write these core, desired feeling down first. I recommend first person, present tense. For example, “I feel gorgeous, fulfilled, abundant, grateful and blessed.” It doesn’t matter if they are true in your life yet. Just write them down.
2. Allowing space for those new thoughts and feelings to nest in, ponder and choose 2-5 main experiences (A.K.A. goals or resolutions) that will help you to sustain those feelings. Focus on abundance in the wording you choose. For instance, consider replacing “Go on a diet and lose 15lbs.” with, “Throw out junk food and fuel my body with healthy, clean, well deserved nourishment.”
3. Post these new statements where you can read them, with love and passion, aloud morning and night. I recommend the bathroom mirror. Attach this new habit to an old habit, such as reading it right after you brush your teeth.
4. Toss the internal criticism that says, “But this is not you. You can’t change. Good things only happen to other people. I told you so.” You don’t have to be perfect to play. Create room in your life to help these new thoughts and habit transpire and release thoughts of failure and defeat. These may come, but if you acknowledge them and let them pass, they do not need to stay and hijack your future.
By
Kalli Wilson
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10 The Beauty Battalion