Happy New Year, good friend! I hope that your 2012 is beginning in a beautiful way.

January is always a pivotal time in our process of intention-setting. Some people make resolutions at 11:59 on New Year’s Eve and they’re over at 12:01. Other people can set powerful intentions that take hold, grow roots, and become integrated into their daily lives forever.

 

What’s the big difference? Acceptance and action. A resolution without acceptance and action is only a wish. Additionally, when you hire a Coach, your chances of success increase even more. You have someone on your side to help you:

  • understand where your strengths are
  • build contingency plans, and
  • develop a set of strategies that work. 

If you want some support in turning your wishes into powerful intentions, I’ve included information here about 3 coaching packages I’m offering at a discounted fee during January. Also, start your year by treating yourself kindly with some Vedic Thai Yoga in Fort Worth at Urban Yoga or in Mansfield at Gratitude Yoga.

 

Wondering how you turn your wishes into powerful intentions that become part of who you are? 

 

First, you must become aware of what needs to change. (Usually easy.) That cute dress no longer fits. The job’s not as fun any more. This relationship’s not working in a way that’s mutually fulfilling.

 

Second, you have to accept things they way they are. (Not quite as easy.) You have to love yourself even though you’re 40 pounds overweight. You have to accept yourself even though you smoke a pack of Marlboro Lights a day. You have to love your life even though your yard’s gone to seed and you can’t grow a decent weed to save your own life. You have to stop putting conditions on your own happiness.

 

Third, you have to start consistently applying actions that will make your desired change happen. (Hardest of all.) What makes it so hard is the word, consistently. In order to make lasting changes, you must find the smallest most do-able step and take it. And keep taking it until it’s second-nature. Until you’ve taken it so many times you can look back and say, “Wow, I’ve come quite a ways.” And of course, you add more and more actions along the way until you become the You that you really know You are.

 

So the process of making change happen in your life is just that, a process, and one in which the steps become increasingly harder. No wonder so many people are carrying around handfuls of wishes. 

 

And here’s the thing. You can do it. I did it, and that’s how I know you can. I lost 95 pounds 7 years ago. It took 3 years, but I did it. I also quit smoking 11 years ago. You can become what you want, too.

  

Join me in having the best 2012 we can by living it as our best selves.