Day 3 and the New Year is in full swing.  Have you given up on any of those New Year’s resolutions yet?  Have you considered your thinking habits are keeping you stuck in last year’s habits?

Are you thinking one way and feeling another?  That would be like building a sand castle as the tide is coming in.  No matter how hard you work at building your new structure, your feelings are the tide and will wash your efforts away each and very time.

Whatever the resolution is to change – busyness, overeating, over-thinking, procrastination, passivity, argumentativeness, shyness – consider these life-changing ideas to get unstuck and delve into your 2012.

First decide how would your life be better if you were to change this aspect?  Typically the first response given is “I’ll feel better”.  After doing hundreds of training seminars, believe me this statement does not motivate anyone.  If that’s your first response consider this question:  If you felt better, what would that look like?

Would you be able to spend more time with your family and friends?  Would you take a trip?  If so to where?  Would you take a class on basket weaving, cooking, love-making?  If so what would you do with your new-found gift?

Today try this exercise.  Write a page in present tense of how your day would look if the change you wish to experience had already occurred.  Nothing will change your emotional state faster than letting your “mind” experience the reality of your imagination.  By the way, your brain does not know the difference between your thoughts and “reality”.  If you are skeptical, do a quick experiment with yourself.  Close your eyes and imagine a lemon on a table in front of you.  Really get a sense of that lemon, the color, the smell, how does it feel in your fingers as you pick it up and the juice begins to roll down your fingers.  In your mind’s eye, take a big bite out of the lemon and feel the juice drip down your fingers.

Open your eyes and notice that your mouth has begun to salivate.  There was no lemon in your “reality”, but there was a lemon in your mind.  Your thoughts and feelings work together to create your reality.

Here is an example of a writing I made a year ago; hopefully it will give you an idea of where to start with your first page:

“It’s a beautiful morning as I watch the sum come up.  Summer is winding down to a close.  It’s well past the half way mark in August.  I am so excited to have been sharing my summer with the participants in all of my seminars and webinars and know that everyone’s life has been changed as a result.  There is nothing more exhilarating than when I get a letter from someone who shares how their life has been changed by something I said.  They are only words and yet so powerful are these words.  I am so struck by those days I used to sit on the floor of my mortgage office and weep because I was not sure what I was suppose to be doing.  I am doing what I love now and those days are far, far behind me. “

These things are happening NOW!!!