Soon 2016 will end and 2017 will begin and with that many of us will be guilty of starting new goals and new changes. Most of the time reflecting on the previous year to build what we believe we need to change, but forgetting that the year before was our setup to be greater in 2017. Yes, I have been guilty of saying, “this year I will, because I feel, and I will do this because”. Most of the time my goals were met with zero action, zero reflection, and no dedication to change what I believed I need for the upcoming year. 
So just like that I stopped with the New Year’s Resolution mess! I didn’t need a list of goals that were mostly superficial and had nothing to do with my personal life journey. I was giving myself busy work, instead of putting in the real work. I am now learning to use 2016 as my bungee cord to leap right into 2017 confident, poised, and ready for further success and bigger dreaming. Goodbye 2017 wish list and hello success.
Before you do away with your mental list of resolutions; ask yourself what on this list is beneficial to the person I have designed myself to be today? What will I gain from these typical resolutions that I end up breaking every year?
If you have no concrete answer to those questions begin to eliminate the ones that have no benefit. Take those empty spaces and begin to really ask for the things you really want; things that will really increase the value of your life. Stop putting superficial demands on your life and begin focusing on the things you truly want and desire. For example, I was guilty of saying I want to save money. That sounds like a good one right? I begin to see that I would save money, but there was no goal attached to my want. I just wanted to save more. I begin to attach a goal and told myself I want to save $1,000 every two months. This allowed me to constantly see the goal and keep in mind that saving a dollar here or there wasn’t the savings I wanted. Adding a goal to my want would set me up for greater financial success. That’s when I stopped stepping into resolution quick sand.
Now that you asked the questions and did the work; it’s time to start believing that it’s yours. For most of us setting the goal is easy and reminding others of your goal is a conversation starter. You are confident in your talk, but weak in your walk. Why? That’s because you don’t believe in the success of what you resolved for the New Year. Those goals have no good for you and they are not success driven. If you want a new career in 2017; you start by designing that career. You begin to draw out the setting, salary, climate, etc. You make it a visual, so that every day you rise with awareness of that goal. 
You wake up to live as if you are heading to that job and begin to feel what it will feel like driving to work every day. Remind yourself why that goal is important, why this job is necessary, and what all the benefits will be. You make that dream a reality and watch the magic unfold. Opportunities will begin to open up and before you know it, you will be right where you visualized yourself to be. Stop playing reruns of your life and get creating your new motion picture.
Begin to live the FUTURE of what your life desires are and stop living in temporary New Year’s Resolutions. I am not removed from the stressors of life, but I am learning that every day is designed to provide us with a new sheet of paper to continue our plan to success. For many of us; we have wasted time, energy, and purpose on things that have created nothing more than setbacks. Sinking in those setbacks we forgot how to set ourselves up for the comeback! Instead we hype ourselves up for the New Year and rapidly develop resolutions that only last a month
. Building success on bad crop. Soon we are resting back on the porch of hard times; singing the “tried, but can’t” blues. STOP IT! Do away with those resolutions and build your solutions to the life you always desired. It can be done and you have the power. The funny thing is you always had the power, but continue to resolve yourself right out of it. Start this New Year believing in who you are and living the life you want to live. Send that list to the garbage and start designing your success. 2016 was my jump start and I will never regret anything done during that time. For it has provided me the fuel I need in 2017. LIVE PEOPLE!
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