Resolve The Resolution 2011
Here we go again. Another 365 days that start with a promise, a promise to self usually about how incredible, how amazing, how wonderful this year will be over the last. Jane felt that way 7 years ago and all the years since. She'd been through a horrible divorce. On the back of that her company she worked at for 17 years collapsed. Then just to make matters worse another very personal disaster came into her life and left a huge gap to follow. That was all in the year 2003. Jane recalls on the eve of 2004 of making a new resolution to create a new business, a new career and a new life, god did she need a new life and fast! Sounding familiar? Anyway it was the eve of 2004 and Jane had created a vision board, written down her plans, she could see all the new things that she not only wanted but really needed and needed fast! It had to be different this time, this year could NOT be the same as the last. The party, the celebrations, the promises, kisses and hugs of new years eve came and went. January 2nd, 3rd and 4th Jane was on fire, bursting with energy, making promise after promise to herself. By the 15th, 16th and 17th she was fading and fading fast. The date was now 27th of January 2004 and Jane was back to square one. Fed-up, down, low and sick and tired of her life. Back to her job. Back to her singledom. Back to her total, absolute frustration! By the time March arrived Jane despised her life with a passion. Sad I know but that was the truth, hers, Jane's reality. What, why and how had it gone wrong again? The answer is very simple. You see we, you are all creatures of habit. That means if we practice something for more than 15 days consecutive we are in a habit. Jane had been miserable for nearly 12 long months. That's a habit forming pattern magnified 24 times. What had taken place was powerful embedding of a powerful thought. The thought was this... 'my life is terrible and can't change' Imagine saying that to yourself time and time again at a subconscious level? Saying things like ... 'I'll never get another man' 'I'll never have money in the bank' 'I'll always hate this job but I need to do it for the cash' Repeat, repeat, repeating those deep embedding, wasteful, hopeless mantras to herself time and time again. The affect of this kind of behavior is huge, life changing and life imprisoning. Jane was and is in prison of her own making. And here she is again, new years resolution yet you know why she won't be able to win the battle for new-ness in 2011? It's the very same reason most resolution's are rarely kept. It's this. Most resolutions are made under the pressure that we are supposed to have a resolution is a promise that this year or an old habit will be and can be won over. The problem is the world and it's granny are all saying and doing the same thing because they are expected to do so. Maybe not a bad thing but let me ask you do you make a resolution when people keep saying to you... 'so what's your new years resolution then?' Then we feel under a certain amount of pressure to make one and try to keep it going. The second and more important reason is very simple. It's impossible to create a long lasting resolution until the old imprisoning thoughts have been totally, completely removed and put the back of your mind and almost removed from your life. How do you do that? Stop ignoring the facts, let go of the history, remove the valueless thinking that we have been shaped or molded by an event of the past. To us, right now that might seem true but the reality is it can't be true. The deep embedded thinking of Zoomanity holds us tight and in it's control. It's dangerous and come be overcome but it must be, it has to come from a deeper place of change. A will, a way and moment where we deiced to take an alternative route in our lives for the greater good. This road is rarely if never easy but can be a road traveled by anyone waiting true change. A relationship will arrive if we let go of how our last man or woman dumped us. If they dumped it simply meant they were never our man or woman, they did usd a favor! If we lost our job of 17 years, so what. That's an alarm call of how important it is that no other institution should control our life and now is the time to take back control away from the corporation. Are you seeing a pattern here now? A resolution is a RESOLVE. What are you resolved to do in your life? When a country is resolved they will not, they refuse to be re-directed, shifted or wavered because the resolve is spoken or written it is already made in the heart of the man. Can you change your heart? Can you shift and move and cleanse out the old habits, the myths of your past? Can you face zoomanity head on, face-to-face and really truly take control of your life for once. Then and only then can you or anyone make a lasting resolution for any new year. Has this helped you? I really hope so. I love feedback, please tell me what you think. Alan Forrest Smith