Achieve More Success Without Setting New Year's Resolutions!

A while back the Learning Annex asked me to teach another class on how to overcome procrastination. I remember thinking it weird that anyone who procrastinated would sign up for a procrastination class. Wouldn't they just procrastinate signing up?

For those of you who have studied the art of setting goals, you may have discovered that most goals are never achieved and only 3 weeks after New Year's day all resolutions are out the window. Why does this happen?

There are many, many reasons as to why someone delays goals, forgets them, changes them, and so on. The overall reasons differ for everyone; a quicker explanation is the following: Not only are people trying to do it all alone and without support, most people put way too many goals on their plate, be it for their daily or their yearly goals. To add to that overwhelm most people are their worst critic and the moment they "fail," at least that's how they feel about missing one of their goals, all the other goals go out the window, hands are thrown up in the air, towels are thrown in, you know the drill. And the fact that we shared our initially enthusiastic ambitions with the wrong people who now are in our faces saying: "I told you so."

There is a way to achieve ultimate success in 2008!

First, inquire within. I am not kidding. Everyone is different about how they react to goals. To one person a test is their worst nightmare and to the next person his greatest reason for putting the nose into their books. To me deadlines are motivational, the tighter the deadline and the harder the task, the more I am turned on to getting it done. For others a deadline may be their worst nightmare.

Let's look at the infamous New Year's resolution to losing weight. It never fails that we are inundated with yet one more diet plan at the beginning of each New Year. To make losing weight a New Year's resolution in my opinion is stupid. Not only is it cruel and harsh on the body, it is especially unrealistic, overwhelming and an attempt to look into an attempt to put yourself into a strip down prison. One we're meant to break out of after the first 3 weeks in January.

So instead of sending yourself to prison on the first of each year, try this instead: Your one and only goal is to always feel amazingly great and fit.

If feeling great and feeling fit is your objective, then the scale has no power to meddle in your business. If you make a specific number your goal of weight to lose, then the scale wins. Instead learn that your body doesn't care if you tell it that it needs to be a 120 pounds or 150 pounds, your body only cares that it is well-cared for, nourished, satisfied, loved, hugged, tended to and used for what it was intended.

Are you getting it?

Let your body do the losing weight part! It was created to work FOR you and to weigh its optimal weight. All you have to do is love it, tend to it, listen to it and obey it. If your body feels your cooperation and you show it the utmost respect, your body will do the same for you in return by bringing forth the beautiful person you already are.

Make only ONE New Year's Resolution this year and let it be the following: Love and respect yourself, listen to your Higher Being's wisdom instead of other people and obey it with gladness and joy in your heart. Always believe that you are truly divinely protected and so is everyone else. The doors you are meant to walk through in 2008 are those that open the easiest.

If you can make this one goal your one daily desire, you will look back onto 2008 and be utterly delighted and euphoric at how easy everything fell into place for you this year. It truly can be considered magic.

So here is to your best year!

Chaszey Sandhriel is the creator of the "Letting-Go Method" and a pro on how to lose weight while freeing yourself from dieting. She offers free reports and audio on her website at www.itsmyweightloss.com and manages an amazing blog for the depressed, itsmyweightloss.blogspot.com.

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