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New Year’s Resolutions and Goals for the Year

January 12, 2010 By Dr. Mom Online Leave a Comment

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I don’t exactly make New Year’s Resolutions, per say. But, I DO look for opportunities throughout the year to challenge myself to get ‘better’. I feel a personal responsibility to myself to do this!! : )

Whether it’s New Year, back-to-school, planning for a vacation or a special event, or a new season around the corner, I typically find a reason to challenge myself in some specific area(s) of my health and lifestyle.

New Year is a time that I set new goals for the entire year and re-assess long-term goals. This isn’t a casual, frivolous endeavor for me. It’s not something I chuckle about 2 days into the year that “I’ve already broken all my resolutions!” I probably wouldn’t have set resolutions like that in the first place if they were so easy to break that quickly!

This is the time that I focus on being the co-creator in my life – I put my free will to use and proactively decide how I will help shape my life. “Life by Design” I call it. (The name of my new book, by the way!) I find this FAR more fun, as well as interesting and meaningful, than the silly, unrealistic resolutions typically set at this time of year. Actually, it’s not always that the resolution is all that silly… it’s typically that the resolution-setter isn’t all that committed in the first place. Just kind of goin’ through the motions of setting resolutions isn’t much of a strategy for success!

Starting off this year, I’ve re-focused on 3 major areas that I’d like to improve and have laid out a challenge for myself.

First, I’m focused on Intention and Attraction. The power of my thoughts, feelings, words, actions, and how they directly shape the outcome of my day… my life. I have re-established some daily rituals that nourish this ultra important focus. Oh, sure. I am definitely pulled off track on this one throughout my day! But the rituals I have in place help me shift and get back on track far more quickly than when I don’t have this as a primary focus in my life.

The second area of focus is exercise and movement. I already exercise regularly, but I just raised the bar for myself and I’m having a little personal competition that deals with a daily challenge. Must be an only-child thing! I’ll write more about the exercise component in another post.

Finally, just like I do a few other times throughout the year, I like to start the New Year off by giving my body (and mind) a break from some of the more toxic &/or deficient things I may have been allowing. I’m always somewhat surprised to realize what I’ve been allowing out of habit or stress or whatever! I find SO much freedom and empowerment when I let go of the big toxic offenders in my life.

I know that I say “Add the good things FIRST… don’t worry about taking away the bad yet.” Well, there comes a time when you have to address the things that are clearly not helping you create better health and greater happiness! New Year is a great time for that – time to clean your “house”!

Whether or not you’re into the whole New Year’s Resolution mindset, I think that we deserve the opportunity to re-evaluate our life on a regular basis, and see where we can proactively make things better… healthier and happier. Every “good” thing you add, every positive shift, and every healthy choice you make DOES add up over time. Every journey consists of single steps!

How about you? Have you recently set some goals or resolutions? How are you doing with them so far?

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