NEW Years Resolutions DESIRE is the key word

***     HAPPY FRUITFUL 2012  ****!

Have you ever made NEW YEARS resolutions? You know,  “this year I am going to only drink alcohol on week-ends?” or “I am going to go to the gym three times a week” but then find after the first winter’s cold snap you have shifted down to a safe once a week gym appearance and red wine every night of the week?

I think all of us have had a surge of enthusiasm and made some wonderful BIG goals, only to find 10 months later, most haven’t even been launched.

AND yet the flip side is that we all realise that harnessed correctly, New Years Resolutions, are wonderful incentives to redefind who we are, our experiences, and who we want to be.

I used to think it was a little over the top to get to obsessed with an idea, but now I understand that without a very deep commitment then success will always be ellusive. Here’s how I do mine. “DESIRE”.

1. DREAM BIG
Firstly think and dream BIG. Think and dream, expansively and feel your mind stretch like a good pec stretch!

2. EMOTION
Emotionally connect with the idea. What does this feel like, can you reach out and touch it, smell it and relate to it?

3. SCRIBE
Scribe with a pencil or pen with no particular thought or question, just let ideas, words and images flow from your inner voice onto the page.

4. IMAGERY
Just as the word suggests, let your imagination loose. Get magazines: luxury magazines, camping, automobile, travel, gourmet, resorts, families, health – whatever your key focuses are this year and cut out images. Keep feelings flowing as you create and design perfect images for your the year.

5. RE-INFORCE
Re-inforce your visions which you can stick onto a board and hang somewhere that you look daily, or put into a A4 folder and sit beside your bed that you look at regularly. Re-inforce these images with words, typed out goals and screen savers etc.

6. EVALUATE
I think everything needs continual reassessment.  Maybe every 3-6 months. Maybe more often if you are opening up amazing changes and opportunities.

An example of the above is a dream you have wanted – maybe being a size 10 in summer dresses. In order to achieve the size 10, things are going to need to change. So you start imagining what it would be like to be a size 10. Maybe that means bikinis, boyfriends, confidence to go out, smiles, health, images of exercising with lots of energy. Whatever it means to you, try to add MORE EMOTION. Really want that state-of-being and cut out images, words, time frames, action steps, goals and surround yourself with the new image. Then you will start to transform. Before too long you will have committed to the change. The resolution will start to happen simply by you spending time focusing on it. Cool?! You bet!

Move with the changes, keep thinking big and most importantly , design your most perfect life!