The songs have all been sung of Christmas carol and Auld Lang Sine.  The toasts have all been made to a great 2013 and hopes of what will be.  Resolutions have been made to eat better and exercise more and make more money.  Gym memberships and attendance always goes up this time of year.  The attendance last for maybe two weeks.

The hard part for most people is not making resolutions but making habits.  The word that comes from the mouth is not as important as the action that comes from the body to set and achieve goals and objectives toward those goals.

The turn if the calendar to the new year brings with it a false sense of everything becoming new.  The problem is that this assumption can lead to apathy and even depression when everything is not new and old habits make new  movements difficult at best.

As we go into this new year there are endless possibilities ahead.  Those possibilities will require the inspiration to make new action and move in new directions otherwise the new will become nothing but a repeat and extension of the old.  I have discovered that most people are not satisfied with their lives and only hope their lives will change for the better in the new year.  That hope will be vain indeed if a plan forward is not put in place.

So how will you make 2013 different than 2012?  Think about it and move beyond  the general…more money…more rest…less stress…less weight.  Those general hopes or resolutions will fail and lead to more stress and despair.  This reality leads only to a stronger grip on your life by that which has already been rather than the new possibility you say you want

In truth you will do what you believe.  If you aren’t where you want to be the first thing to change is an internal belief that leads to you being in that situation:  such as “I’m fat”, “I’m a failure”, “I deserve the crap I’ve been getting”.  All the resolutions, goals, and objectives that you can ever make will be worthless if your limiting beliefs remain.  So where do you go from here?

Here’s what I might say to you:  determine what feelings are holding you back and what beliefs are holding you back.  List those feelings and beliefs in writing and then focus on feeling the feelings throughout your life and letting them go.  Then see what false beliefs you are believing about yourself.  Begin to change those beliefs into feelings so you can let them go.

This may be a strange concept and I understand your difficulty understanding these practices.  I spell them out in my book, Letting Go: becoming who you are meant to be.  I will be writing more about these ideas and practices in the coming days.

As the calendar has flipped and we are now in a new year one very good resolution you can make, one very good commitment you can keep is getting a copy of my book either on Kindle or paperback.  Let’s face it, if you are reading this and do not know why or how to achieve new dreams and goals then my book could be exactly what you need.

The calendar has flipped and newness has come in the form of a new year.  Will you use that newness to venture in a direction you’ve never been in before?  Come along for a ride of inspiration and letting go of what you do not need.

Blessings to you all.