It’s almost the middle of the month. How are you doing with those resolutions you made at the beginning of the year?? Did you forget about them already or are you hanging in there so far?

It’s always funny to me how the gym parking lot is ALWAYS crazy busy at the beginning of January and gets steadily less so as the month wears on. Is this you?

Shockingly only 8% of people who make resolutions actually succeed at them. WOW!

A new year is a great time to decide to do something different in your life. But I would say that the most important word there is “Decide”. Many people SAY they are making changes and then go about their lives exactly the same way…or they make changes for a couple of weeks and then lose focus on what they said they were going to do.

Why is that?? What is it for you?

Are you making resolutions about things that aren’t that important to you??

Or are you waiting for that magical “tomorrow” that never comes?

Does it get too hard? Or require you to really be consistent and put forth effort?

What is it about the word “Decide” that makes such a difference??

Well, everyone I know who has truly changed their life has finally done it when they made a deep, true, radical, committed decision that they were going to make changes and succeed. Period. No excuses. No reasons it can’t or won’t work. No trying. Just doing. They make a clear commitment to take steps every single day to bring them closer to their goal. And. They. Do. It. Simple.

And this applies to me too. My life only changed when I decided that I had had enough with how it was and I didn’t want to live like that any more. I choose each and every single day, to this day, to manage the negativity that tries to creep into my thoughts and my life and to keep taking steps to where I want to go. I am so much further along than where I have come from…and yet there is so much more to go.

It’s a new year, a new day, a new moment. And with this moment comes another chance to make a change.

Decide now. Make THIS be the day, the hour, the minute, the second, that YOU decide that you are done with making resolutions based on nothing and from this moment forward, you are committed, determined, decided, that whatever your goals for yourself and your life, you will get there…no matter what! Decide that YOU will not be part of the 92% that fails to keep your goals, but be a solid member of that 8% who wins! You deserve nothing less.

Now go get it!

Peace and Blessings,