How to Write New Year’s Resolutions That Work

Mon, Dec 29, 2008

A Passionate Career, Creating Success, Law of Attraction

Limiting Belief

Aaargh! I didn’t accomplish half of what I said I would in my New Year’s Resolutions.

Playback Affirmation

Even though I didn’t accomplish half of my New Year’s Resolutions, I deeply and completely love and accept myself, and I’m willing to revise them to achieve better results.

As we approach the New Year, we also look back in 2008 and either feel proud of what we accomplished or beat ourselves up for not following through with some of our New Year’s Resolutions.

“You should have done more…” or “You should have done better” your Inner Critic will say.

The problem with traditional New Year’s Resolutions is that they hardly ever work in your favor. Instead of gently nudging you to achieve your goals, when you don’t, they then serve as a yard stick for which you feel you don’t measure up.

Here’s a better way to approach writing what you want to have, be, and do for 2009:

Make a pact with yourself that whether or not your goals have materialized, you will still deeply and completely love and accept yourself anyway.
Read the book Separated by Dreams (by Elizabeth Ann Guevara) that illustrates a true story of how writing “positive sentences” helped two people create the life of their dreams. This book is filled with several examples of what each person wrote that propelled powerful changes and manifestations in their lives.
Write your New Resolutions in the same style as Guevara wrote the positive sentence examples in Separated by Dreams.

In my next post I will give you 5 guidelines to follow while you write your Positive Sentences/New Resolutions and what to do after you write them.