New Year’s Resolutions
We still have a few days left
If you also have good resolutions for the New Year, you still have a few days left. Cheers! Let’s postpone what we have planned once again until tomorrow. We both know how that turns out. You’ve probably heard this sentence as often as I have after New Year’s Eve: „I lasted three hours without smoking.“
Well, three hours smoke-free. That’s still a success. Seriously.
But if we really want to achieve something, let’s start today. And, by the way, where is your vision paper? Your image collage for 2024 that you pull out of your pocket and flip through on your phone every day to keep your focus?
What is your vision for the New Year?
„Your vision is so important… blah, blah, blah. Make a collage… blah, blah, blah. Your subconscious mind… blah, blah.“ Every coach tells you that in the first free call by now. But I have to admit:
Our subconscious mind loves rituals. It wants to create coherence.
Rituals work to let go of the old and start something new.
So, if you haven’t started with your resolutions yet today, the turn of the year is perfect for it – with a vision board and image collage for your wish fulfillment.
Write your life story anew from now on
With that, you can step out of your negative stories that you tell yourself every day – and out of thoughts that you might not even notice. Well, I admit that if you don’t notice them, stepping out is a bit tricky.
But the next relationship doesn’t have to be a drama. I know this from myself: From the start, I went into a relationship with the unconscious attitude that my partner would disappoint me. What? „Really?“, you might ask. Yes, really. But with a different attitude, a different story I tell myself, can I change the outcome of a relationship, a project, maybe even my whole life?! (That was a tough realization!)
Okay, from the beginning again: The next relationship will enrich my life and above all enrich my partner’s life!
Your vision board will keep that in front of you: Your story that you write for yourself for 2024.
Contemplative holidays
The upcoming holidays are an opportunity for that! Christmas and New Year take us out of the mire of everyday life for a few days. We can look at our lives from a bird’s-eye view and reflect. Maybe we notice a few things that we were blind to before.
We see what wasn’t so great in 2023 and can steer against it.
We see what did us good.
And then we can say to ourselves: „I want,“ „I should,“ or „I may.“ Also, „I’ll try.“ However, these formulations always leave a back door open, which is why it might not work after all.
„Do or do not. There is no try“
So, Padawan, to prevent the resolution from being thrown over after three hours. Do something good for yourself and listen to the famous quote from Master Yoda: „Do or do not. There is no try.“
I now make sure to formulate my visions for the future as precisely as possible so that a real plan emerges that I can realistically implement.
May the Force be with you.
