PLANNING FOR A HAPPIER NEW YEAR?

Don’t wait for January to think about New Years Resolutions. Make some simple changes now and prepare yourself for better things. You might get benefit from rebooting your system, just like a computer needs a good reboot from time to time.

Over the last 12 months I had tremendous success balancing my weight (that’s the positive way of saying that I’ve actually lost the weight of a small corgi – ha ha ha ha ha) and it all started by giving my body a shock. For example, instead of completely avoiding chocolate (which I’d done for years), I spent one day eating whatever the heck I felt like – and refused to feel guilty about it (this is key). My body sure noticed that something had changed and started eliminating the excess. In the same way, I think our lives need a bit of a shock sometimes too – and doing something different in one area of your life can effortlessly effect the others.

A wise man once said to me, “If you think that your finances need to improve, it’s usually your relationship that needs attention! When you think that starting a new relationship will fix things, it’s usually work or finances that are the problem.”

I’ve also found that if I’ve been trying to solve a problem for more than 15 minutes (or a week, a month, a year) and nothing has really shifted, I know it’s well and truly time to focus on something else. And you’ll know what I mean from your own experience, when you decided to get a new pet, or fall in love, or start an exciting business, or get focused on a hobby, or move house, or take a holiday – something shifts and improves the rest of your life too!

Here are a few simple ways to GIVE YOUR LIFE A REBOOT without directly tackling a problem and trying to wrestle it to the ground:

CHANGE the first thing you do every morning.
CHANGE the last thing you do at night.
CHANGE your attitude about something that matters (decide it’s a good thing instead of being bad).
CHANGE the direction you sleep.
CHANGE how you do a particular daily task.
CHANGE the social media platform you spend most of your time on.
CHANGE a silly old habit.
CHANGE who you do things with.
CHANGE the environment around you (tidy up, clean up, wash up.)
CHANGE where you spend most of your waking moments.
CHANGE your location (or your proximity to a problem.)
CHANGE your posture (get up, look up, straighten your spine etc.)
CHANGE your speed (slow down or go faster.)
CHANGE which shoe you put on first.
CHANGE your direction (take a different driving route – this makes you much more consciously aware.)
CHANGE your clothes (it sure works for me.)
CHANGE what you’re focusing on, right now! ~ With love, ER

Elizabeth Richardson - AUTHOR OF 500 CONFESSIONS