Interval: Limbo or Renewal?

Written by Cathy Goodwin


Q. "I hate my job. I'm considering starting a business…and I really want to move to a warmer climate. Arizona sounds good! But it'srepparttar holiday season. I'll startrepparttar 123385 process on New Year's Day."

A. The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas often gets dismissed as dead time. It's a happy, limbo-like state, where you can enjoyrepparttar 123386 present, knowingrepparttar 123387 future will be on your doorstep soon enough.

If you're drowning in year-end deadlines and family festivals, you may feel too overwhelmed to consider your own future. However, people who accomplish successful transitions refuse to be derailed. They may take extra breaks but they assign a minimum number of minutes per day to work on their long-term goals.

And they gain leverage by putting their subconscious minds to work for them, even while they're attending a party.

How does this happen?

Let's say you allocate fifteen minutes a day to your Number One long-term goal. Maybe you add a weekly power surge by calling a coach or mentor. You're verbalizing your goals and hearing reinforcement from a supportive resource.

Creating the Best Year of Your Life

Written by Sopan Greene, M.A., www.AngryEnoughToChange.com


Atrepparttar end of each year, and on their birthdays, many people take time to reflect and look ahead. If you're one of these people, or if you would like to start gettingrepparttar 123384 benefits from a little self reflection, then I have some great questions for you.

These questions can be looked at once a year, once a month or whenever you're looking for some direction in your life. I invite you to take a good hard look at your life more than once a year. You'll get a lot more out of your life if you're more conscious about what you're creating.

Some ofrepparttar 123385 questions weren't developed by me and many are from a terrific book called "Your Best Year Yet: Ten Questions for Makingrepparttar 123386 Next Twelve Months Your Most Successfull Ever" by Jinny S. Ditzler. I highly recommend it if you want to go a little deeper.

These questions have been designed to help you to take time to completerepparttar 123387 year and to formulaterepparttar 123388 new year from a clean slate. By working onrepparttar 123389 following questions you will complete this year powerfully so you can haverepparttar 123390 room to build a new "me" forrepparttar 123391 new year.

Looking at this past year:

1. What do I want to be acknowledged for?

2. What did I accomplish?

3. What did I want to accomplish that I did not accomplish? (Do I still want to do this?)

4. What did I say I would do that I didn't do? (Do I still want to do this?)

5. Who do I need to be in communication with?

6. What were my biggest disappointments?

7. What did I learn? - List 3 lessons which will makerepparttar 123392 most difference if you remember them this year? (See them as guidelines for next year).

Changing patterns:

1. How do you limit yourself and how can you transform these actions to be powerful?

2. What do you say to yourself to explain your failures? (These false beliefs are your limiting paradigm).

3. List your limiting paradigm.

4. List your new paradigm which must be personal, positive, present tense, powerfully and simply stated, pointing to an exciting future.

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