Your life theme will be your overriding intention or "big picture" focus for upcoming months. It has an expiration date of December 31, when you'll get a chance to re-evaluate your direction. Having a life theme is like having a personal mission statement for your whole life, personal and professional, updated annually. A life theme works because it takes into consideration and connects all your intentions for year in a succinct and powerful phrase. This collection of one to five words describes what you want to accomplish in all areas of your life and cements your main priorities with intended action.

Discover Your Intentions

Perhaps as you've explored who you are and what you want to create for your life, you've noticed that "Wellbeing" or "Wellness" has come up for you over and over. Or perhaps you've noticed more of a "Relationship" theme. Or maybe word "Passion" has tugged at your heart repeatedly, or you've focused on "Patience." These are all great themes for upcoming year. Through your own personal discovery, you may recognize that you haven't made time in your life for many friends, that your networks are weak and that you'd like to have a social circle beyond your immediate family. Your life theme in this case could be "Connection." It may be you've realized that your life is far more filled with work and errands than with fun and play, and you want to fix that imbalance. Your life theme then could be "Energize."

Feel Magic

You may ask, what’s adding a little sizzle hurt any?

It’s not extra energy that you bring to table as long as it’s your true personality. It is egregious transformation from you knowing who you are, to a personality that you may or may not realize is fraudulent.

Whether you call it fake, phony, fraudulent, multiple personalities or whatever, it pretty much adds up to same thing. It is not who you are. I know, I, not unlike millions of others, had taken on ‘Mr. Hollywood’ whenever a situation called for it and my color changed like a chameleon to suit my environment.

Adolescents are always trying to one up each other in order to cement themselves into an ever-changing social structure. You may see it at mall when a pack of thirteen year old girls float through an area you are shopping and their volume is much more accentuated than that of 99% of everyone elses..

It is almost as though, since everyone else is always trying to put on their respective show to world that if you don’t, you’re afraid you won’t stand out; you’ll be bland and boring. When you’re not trying to impress world with your made up personality, you’re just that regular Joe that you or anyone else will see as unique.

That mindset couldn’t be farther from truth! In fact, when you change your fundamental persona to suit your environment, you not only hurt yourself with a lie, but you lie to everyone you put this on for. It may be your friends, it may be your family or both.

So what would happen if you didn’t put on your plastic face everyday? Wouldn’t you be letting everyone down who depends on that persona to entertain them, to make their existence better? Wouldn’t you be lying again by being you because you’ve always been lying?

This could not only ruin your social life, but possibly get you fired because your boss may expect that outgoing salesperson he first hired. All of a sudden, you want to be you instead of fantasy that’s magnetic, appealing and irresistible.