Happy New Year (and why New Year Resolutions Don’t Work)!

How many people have asked you over the previous week or so…. ‘Do you have any New Year Resolutions’?  To which most people respond either ‘No’(!) or, ‘I’m going to try and lose weight’, or ‘I’m going to try to give up smoking’. Perhaps you may have heard ‘I’m going to try and get a new job’?

The part of this that always strikes me as odd is the word ‘try’. If you ‘try’ to do something, you are generally expecting to fail! ‘I’ll try and lose weight’… No, just do it! ‘I’ll try and quit smoking’… no… Just do it!

There is no great secret to it, other than a personal commitment from yourself to do so… and if you REALLY wanted to change something, why wait for the start of a new year, a new month, a new week?  Through many years of conditioning, the mind has learnt behaviour that says it’s ok to start again.  Think back in time to early school days, when perhaps a drawing or painting that in your opinion went wrong, was erased from your memory by a new, clean, fresh sheet of paper?  Who remembers getting that new, clean, fresh exercises book at school, where the first few pages had the most beautiful, carefully written text…. and then the handwriting degenerates rapidly?!

In virtually everything we do, business, sport, hobbies, life…. our mind likes a ‘fresh start’. But that is simply conditioning (or programming) and there are no rules to say that must be so. Break the rules, re-condition your personal conditioning.

Your mind will generally do what it thinks is best for you, what it ‘believes’ makes you happy… which is exactly why we all to often succumb to temptation! One chocolate, one glass of wine, one cigarette, one desert won’t hurt us, will it? But one soon becomes two, as the cravings inside your mind say to you… ‘See, I knew that would make you feel good’!

If you want to change something, the BEST time to change it is NOW. If you have to wait, then you are not fully committed and will more than likely fail.

 

Those of you that have goals for 2018, how many have planned those goals or at least written them down? What is it you want to achieve by ensuring those goals are met?

We have delivered many workshops in the past that focus on goal achievement, and recently there have been further requests for similar workshops. If you feel you, a colleague or friend, would benefit, then simply drop us a line, like and share this post and we’ll make it our ‘goal’ to organise a workshop.

So whatever YOU decide YOU want to change, make a commitment to YOURSELF to do so.

Have  great New Year, be happy in whatever you do.

More Festive Fun!

Here’s a message from Woody and Buzz, stars of Toy Story.

The imagination of children is a wonderful thing, they have that ability to become flexible with their thoughts and adapt their belief systems, yet many of us lose this as we have to ‘conform’ or ‘fit in’ to some of the various guidelines and boxes that again, (strangely) we imagine are there! This Christmas, use some of that imagination and create your own future… it really is that easy. Pablo Picasso once said, ‘Everything you can imagine is real’ and we can most certainly relate to this, when we consider how effective the most simple toys were when we were much younger. Who honestly never imagined they were Prince Charming or a Disney Princess when they were at primary school when becoming a Premier League Footballer or a TV Presenter or Actress was quite simply a reality and something you would ‘just do’ when you grew up rather than how many people see it now, a ‘pipe dream’? How many knock-backs do we receive along the way, possibly, which has the conditioning effect that we are simply just not good enough or the best jobs are ‘for those other, lucky, people’?

Lose those limiting belief systems and go and change your world. For help with this, simply follow our blog http://www.imduk.org or facebook page http://www.facebook.com/IMDUKlimited and start yourself on the road to your destination, whatever you imagine that may be?