the New Year's Resolution Dilemma

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Transition Coaching & Event Planning, LLC Newsletter
the New Year's Resolution Dilemma
January 2005
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-- Article: the New Year's Resolution Dilemma

Article: the New Year's Resolution Dilemma
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?...Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you...As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

~ from Marianne Williamson's "A Return to Love", used in Nelson Mandela's inaugural speech (1994).

While it's an admittedly arbitrary tradition, making a New Year's resolution is as good a way as any to do some self evaluation and decide on ways to create more joy, authenticity, balance, and fulfillment in your life.

Having said that, have you ever felt the early-January, adrenalin pumping, I-can-do-it, this-is-MY-year determination only to have your resolution deflate into little more than an adrenaline hangover and faint memory by mid-February?

So, when next year rolls around, what do you do? Do you set a similar, yet slightly less audacious, resolution and deem it "more realistic"?

"This way," you say to yourself, "I'm not setting myself up for failure." Or, maybe you become a disgruntled New Year's humbug and decide to stop making resolutions all together!

Sometimes we actually convince ourselves that lowering our standards is an act of self-kindness! What tricksters we are!

This year, why not raise the bar on what's realistic? Why not set a goal for your powerful-beyond-measure-greater-than-you've-ever-imagined Self, and make the commitment? And why not start right now?

Dare to be nothing short of fabulous. Some questions to consider:

1. What's your New Year's resolution?

2. How does this resolution reflect the standards you've set for yourself?

3. In what ways would fulfilling your resolution impact your life?

4. Would sharing your resolution with someone who agrees to hold you accountable be helpful? If so, be specific in your request: for a month, a year, a lifetime?

I wish you all a happy, healthy, loving, abundant New Year!

Have feedback? I'd love to hear from you!


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