It seems to me that New Year's Resolutions are a lot about just hoping it happens. Everyone talks about them from say Dec 21st-ish until about January 10th -ish and then everyone goes back to doing what they've been doing. Sound familiar? Be honest. The reason change doesn't happen is we don't have a strategy for creating the change. This is a set-up for sabotage in my opinion.

For a long time I wrote out my resolutions every year, but it never really worked for me.. I wasn't really jazzed by my resolutions. Honestly, I usually felt like a big, fat, failure - "Oh, these things again - exactly what I couldn't get done last year.” I never really looked at them; they sorda bothered me probably because they seemed like "obligations” rather than "exciting desires.”

Then I was introduced to the idea of creating a 1 year vision instead of making resolutions. This visioning wasn't just about "shoulds”, but about what I really WANTED. (I think I was a little afraid to make that claim in the past). It was a "holistic” way of looking at what I wanted - my career, family, friends, health, personal time and money desires. I started to get it - all of it works together. Each area isn't independent; if one area suffers the whole picture (which I realized was my life) was being affected in some way.

The best thing about ENVISIONING the year was that to see it, I had to FEEL it. Whoa. I noticed that I wasn't really giving myself much credit for what I could actually get done in a year. I was locked into a "yearly routine” that I had been living out for a long time. But having to create a vision of what the year would look like allowed me to start to GO BIG. Seasonal sections dropped and my energy un- blocked. My creative side started going crazy and I rea