Create Change in your life

The month of December is by all accounts a time to celebrate good times with friends and family. It is also a time to look back on what you have achieved throughout the past year, a time of reflection on the things that you have done, or are currently doing and the things that you will continue to do in the future. It is a time to look back on what has been achieved rather than dwell on what hasn’t.

It is also a time when people most often look to the future, probably more than any other time in the year. When people make their plans for the future, the changing of the years seems to signify much more than the changing of the months or weeks.

But before the countdown starts to welcome in the New Year, it is important to have a clear vision, defined strategy or set of goals in place so when the New Year does arrive you are able to hit the ground running (or just carry on from where you left off previously).

Any time is a good time to create goals for yourself, but at the start of the year it just seems more logical, a brand new set of 12 months to play around with.

And so with that in mind, what are your plans for the coming year? What do you want to do? Where do you want to do it and when do you want to have it done by?

A vision for the year ahead is something that needs to be written down, spend some time with this, write it down on paper or type it up on the computer, don’t just think about it during your coffee break. When you write something down it somehow makes it seem more real, as opposed to just random thoughts in your mind. Play around with some different ideas and scenarios, which ones seem appealing, which ones don’t?

What is the time frame for each activity? Are you splitting the year up into quarters, every couple of months, half yearly, monthly or weekly?

• Are there any courses you want to start?

• How much money do you want to earn?

• Any places you want to travel to?

• Is there one thing you want more than anything else?

Once you have this list save it and refer to it often, use it to plan your monthly or weekly goals.

I think it is important to do this before January, the year has already started by then. Consequently when January does arrive you will already know what it is you have to do, you are aware of your mission (and have already accepted it). It is a tired old cliché but as you get older the years really do seem to pass by quicker, therefore taking time to complete tasks such as writing down your vision for the year ahead become ever more important.

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Henry Ford once said, ‘if you think you can or if you think you can’t, you’re right’, and he of course correct because whatever we say in our own life ultimately is the way things will be. Saying the words ‘I am’ has a powerful effect on your life and the way you live it. When looking at logical levels of change, your identity is at the top of the tree. Whoever you identify with will affect your beliefs, your capabilities, your behavior and finally your environment.

Levels of change:

1. Identity
2. Beliefs
3. Capabilities
4. Behavior
5. Environment

Depending on what you identify with, it can be good or bad.

Let’s say you want to start writing, until you start identifying yourself as ‘a writer’ as opposed to somebody who just writes, there will be in congruencies in your behavior, you will not really believe you are a writer. You may find you get stuck and are unable to move forward. You may even stop writing altogether, not quite believing you have what it takes to become a writer.

If you say you are ‘a writer’ then you will already believe it, you are already saying you have the capabilities to write, and your behavior will indicate this. While you don’t have to say you are a writer to write every day it won’t hurt, and there are many people who if they knew you were writing daily would call you a writer. You don’t necessarily need to have a book published to call yourself a writer. As long as you identify with being a writer your actions and beliefs will follow suit. If you say that you aren’t a writer than you may find you lack the self belief to take steps to get your work published.

While there is power in saying something positive ‘I am a writer, I am kind, I am successful in my job’ (the power comes from the way you actions and beliefs change as a result of what you say), the negatives can be just as powerful.

‘I am an idiot’, ‘I am a failure’, ‘I am lacking in confidence’, ‘I am lacking in ideas’, ‘I am lazy’. Can you think of any others you say to yourself?

1. Identity
2. Beliefs
3. Capabilities
4. Behavior
5. Environment

If you identity with ‘I am lazy’, what do you think will transpire in your life when you say that? Let’s say you want to start a business, great! You see the future, working for yourself, the money coming in, the feeling of satisfaction that you created your own destiny, you believe you can do it, and that you have the necessary capabilities, but wait, you have always seen yourself as somebody who is lazy, how are you going to make it all happen knowing you are lazy?

Of course you would like to run your own business but you’re lazy so it is equally important to sit around wasting hours not doing very much? After all isn’t that what being lazy is all about? Good luck with getting the business started lazy bones.

A slightly more useful identity would be of someone who is proactive in taking action. For example instead of ‘I am lazy’, say ‘I am pro-active in getting work done on a daily basis’.

See how your behavior and capabilities change when you say that?

You do realize you chose what to say to yourself, don’t you? If you aren’t getting or haven’t been getting the results you want for yourself maybe you need to change something? And perhaps you need to change what you say to yourself each day before you get out of bed? While you travel to work or while you are walking to the shops etc.

If you are happy with the way things are in your life, carry on doing what you are doing, if you’re not, then change what you do. Or at least understand that your life will not change until you do alter your behavior and for the purpose of this article in particular your identity.

Listen out for when you say ‘I am’, I am this or I am that. If it is not constructive, immediately change it.

Change ‘I am not confident’ into ‘I am confident of myself and my abilities to get things done and handle everything that comes my way’.

Instead of ‘I am a failure’, say ‘I am a success, I have achieved much in my life and I have what it takes to achieve a lot more’.

Unfortunately the mind will always dwell on the negative, it takes effort sometimes to be positive but the long term benefits will be there for all to see.

The images you make, the sounds you hear in your head have a direct impact on your productivity, and indeed your life, make sure you have all yours working for you rather than against you.

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Beliefs about your identity

We all have negative beliefs about ourselves and what we are capable of, yet how many of us have actually asked ourselves what exactly we are identifying with when we speak about our capabilities? How exactly have we managed to believe this and why? Has the belief you hold served you well up to now, will it serve you well in the future. Does it empower you in any way at all?

Here are some example negative beliefs and ways you can reframe them.

I won’t be able to get out of debt; I’ll probably be paying off my credit card forever.

Do you really want to be labeled as somebody who never managed to get out of debt and was al

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Health: The law of attraction in action

• The placebo effect is an example of the law of attraction in action. When a patient truly believes the tablet is a cure, he receives what he believes and is cured.

• Focusing on perfect health is something we can all do within ourselves, despite what may be happening on the outside.

What you resist you attract

• Because you are powerfully focused on what you resist with emotion you attract it. To change anything, go within and emit anew signal with your thoughts and feelings.

• You cannot help the world by focusing on negative things. As you focus on the worlds negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.

Energy is everything

• You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want.

• Energy cannot be created or destroyed - it just changes form. Therefore, the pure essence of you has always been and always will be.

Things you can do to feel good now

• You get to fill the blackboard of your life with whatever you want. The more you use the power within you, the more power you will draw through you.

• Do what you love, if you don’t know what brings you joy ask, ‘What do I love to do?’ As you commit to this, you will attract an avalanche of good things.

• What you do with your life is up to you, whatever you choose is right. The power is all yours.

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The law of attraction says that like attracts like.

• When you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you. Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source - you.

The law of attraction is a law of nature.

• It is as impartial as the law of gravity. Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.

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