Empowered Resolutions
Make This Year's Resolutions Successful Using 6 Life Coaching Tips
Making a meaningful lifestyle change benefits from rethinking the change process. Use 6 proven life coaching strategies to successfully navigate a life transition.
Is there a way to empower New Year's resolutions to keep desired lifestyle changes on track? On January 2, resolutions seem so doable, so achievable, and so important to happiness in the coming year. Yet a few weeks later most resolutions are not feeling very doable or achievable. What started as enthusiasm may even have become so discouraging that the Year’s resolutions are abandoned altogether.
The Secret of Empowered Resolutions
This doesn’t need to happen! Using empowerment techniques can make a significant difference in the successful achievement of a personal or professional change. Try applying these six simple but important Standards of Empowerment to New Year’s resolutions and any self development goal. This is a Best Practice worth considering. Happy New Year!
Trust
Learn to trust in the choice or decision to make a change. Practice respect for the confidentiality of decisions and choices. It is often important not to tell everyone about a New Year’s resolution right away. Maintain a safe space for the change by holding its ember tenderly in the heart for a while. It will be clear when the time for sharing is right.
Beginner’s Mind
Be open to new ideas on how to accomplish desired changes. Allow the mind to relax and be open to approaching a change in new and fresh ways. Let spontaneous ideas and insights emerge. Think about other goals and successes that have been achieved? What fueled those successes? Are there new and innovative ways of achieving this goal that have not yet been tried?
Be Positive
Be willing to focus on what is working now. Everyone is blessed with positive people, experiences and memories. Humans even have the capacity to rebound from mistakes and learn their positive lessons. Focusing on the positive things in life works because what one focuses on expands. Resist thinking about what is not working, focusing on small failures, or negative self-talk and make room for the positive changes that are beginning to appear.
Practice Compassionate Honesty
Be honest in choosing resolutions and be compassionate in fulfilling those decisions. Is the New Year’s resolution something really wanted? Or, is it something someone else wants or thinks is important? If the passion for change is not strong have the courage to choose not to do it. Pick another New Year’s resolution or goal. Pick one that is really, truly wanted.
Give and Receive Self Acknowledgment
Look for ways to authentically acknowledge the inner self. Practice the art of supporting specific achievements in growth. Applaud when small successes are achieved on the journey toward realizing a goal or a New Year’s resolution. It doesn’t take a lot of fanfare. Simply say quietly to the inner mind, “Wow, great job”!
Practice Self-Care
Always maintain a personal safe place for self development. If internal or external judgments or harshness creep in, take a moment to reframe those judgments into a self discovery. If negative thoughts appear try restating them. For example: “Everyone fails in achieving their New Year’s resolutions” might become “There are many ways to enjoyably achieve a New Year’s resolution.” Then begin looking for ways to act on the new, positive viewpoint.
