Resolutions Worth Keeping

Written by Shawn Driscoll


8 RESOLUTIONS WORTH KEEPING (c) 2004 Shawn Driscoll, Succeed Coaching

Well, it’s that time again…time to wrap up another year and chart our course forrepparttar next. We are, of course, naturally drawn to create resolutions as we enter into a new calendar year. There’s something exciting and encouraging about a fresh start. But, resolutions have also become an albatross around our necks…those great intentions trampled, year after year, underrepparttar 129379 comings and goings of daily life.

What if this year you resolved to do things that were so worth doing, you wouldn’t struggle inrepparttar 129380 least? Sure, working out 2 hours a day atrepparttar 129381 gym and eating only tuna and lettuce might get you a smaller waistline, but how much fun will it be? How much happier will it make you? And how much effort will it take to get there? My personal resolution is to freely live inrepparttar 129382 present…to have fun, laugh, smile and find joy inrepparttar 129383 life I have worked to hard (through decades of other resolutions!) to create. So here’s my list of resolutions worth making. What are yours?

Resolve to: 1. STOP Setting Yourself Up for Failure Somehow, resolutions have becomerepparttar 129384 perfect opportunity to set ourselves up for failure. We choose goals that we don’t really want, or aren’t really willing to dorepparttar 129385 work required, and then berate ourselves when we fail to accomplish them. Really, why bother? Simply refuse to set any resolution, goal, or intention that you’re not convinced you will accomplish.

2. Become more willing How willing are you to receiverepparttar 129386 good that comes into your life? Do you willingly accept compliments by taking them in and saying a gracious thank you? Do you willingly accept offers of help without saying “thanks, but no thanks”? And how about opportunities? Are you open to new opportunities and insights or do you resist them when they appear because it’s just too much effort? Become more willing to acceptrepparttar 129387 good that comes into your life and see how much easier life can get.

3. STOP tolerating Really, it is a choice. You can absolutely decide to be a toleration-free zone. What are you putting up with in your life? What are you willing to do about it? Write up a list and set it aside. My guess is that byrepparttar 129388 end of February you’ll have naturally tackled 50% ofrepparttar 129389 list without even realizing it--simply because you’ve decided to stop tolerating things. And, you’ll feel super energized!

4. Start each day with a FUN agenda Ask yourself each morning…what’s going to be fun about today? Ifrepparttar 129390 answer is nothing, make a plan. Really, what are we waiting for anyway?

Darkness is an Essential Part of Abundance

Written by Kalinda Rose Stevenson, PhD


Darkness Is An Essential Part of Abundance

Today marksrepparttar winter solstice,repparttar 129377 shortest day ofrepparttar 129378 year inrepparttar 129379 Northern Hemisphere. Winter begins on this day.

Many of us seek abundance and we seek to live enlightened lives. And yet, on this time ofrepparttar 129380 solstice I want to celebraterepparttar 129381 darkness as an essential part of abundance. What ifrepparttar 129382 hidden obstacle standing between you and living an “Abundantly Alive Now!” life is that you don’t have enough darkness in your life?

Darkness and Light Throughout nature, life is a balance between night and day, dark and light. And yet, many of us live as ifrepparttar 129383 balance ofrepparttar 129384 dark and light doesn’t matter. Nothing has thrown us off balance more thanrepparttar 129385 machine calledrepparttar 129386 computer andrepparttar 129387 invention calledrepparttar 129388 internet. There is no darkness in cyberspace. In earlier times, people usedrepparttar 129389 winter as a time to prepare forrepparttar 129390 coming growing season. Farmers took care of their tools, fishermen tended their nets. Women spun wool. People usedrepparttar 129391 winter as a time of retreat.

Not us. Not when we can have lights blazing 24 hours each day. Not whenrepparttar 129392 internet never quits. Not when business is open somewhere 24 hours a day in our global economy. Not when we are told that we have to adapt to a world that never sleeps.

Yet our effort to live inrepparttar 129393 light without respite sets us at odds with nature itself. Nature demands periods of darkness alternating with light.

I sometimes wonder aboutrepparttar 129394 health of trees in store parking lots. Have you seen them? The basic plant process of photosynthesis requires a dark phase. Plants takerepparttar 129395 energy ofrepparttar 129396 sun and transform it into food forrepparttar 129397 plant. Yet,repparttar 129398 well-lit trees in parking lots acrossrepparttar 129399 land are exposed to light all night long, night after night. At a time when a tree needs darkness to create energy for itself, sodium lights cast a weird orange glow overrepparttar 129400 tree.

Don’t Snooze, You Lose

Human beings aren’t all that much different fromrepparttar 129401 trees. We are people who needrepparttar 129402 darkness but we expose ourselves to relentless light. Most of us are chronically sleep deprived. Closing our eyes to darkness seems like a waste of time, when there is so much to do. We are convinced that if we snooze we will lose.

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