I wanted to invite everyone reading my blog to an opportunity to have a better 2011.
How can I guarantee this offer? Because I have a simple principle to teach you, one that every telemarketer already knows. A principle that, when applied to your life change efforts, will work miracles without giant effort on your part.
As a matter of fact, this idea REQUIRES that you do NOT make big changes. Instead, think SMALL.
Can you give just 30 minutes a day to your goals for 2011? New Year’s Resolutions often fail because they require that we make large changes in our behaviors and habits over very short periods of time. Instead I encourage you to implement change slowly, methodically, with intention and caution.
Making changes in who we are, improving our lives, is much like investing. How many times have you heard stories of people winning the lottery only to be broke within a few years. How many professional athletes find themselves with nearly nothing left of the millions they earned as players shortly after they retire from the sport? These people find their money gone quickly because it was added to their accounts quickly and without a plan of how to use it wisely. Successful investing strategy is a process of adding a little at a time, regularly, over a long period of time. By building your investments slowly, following a carefully thought out plan, you find success and the ability to retire and enjoy life. The same is true of making changes in our lives. If we attempt to change all at once our spirit rebels and we quickly revert to our previous ways. If, on the other hand, we “invest” in ourselves a little each day over a longer period of time we find that the change “sticks” and that each little change builds on itself much like interest on our invested money.
So, start small and invest just 30 minutes a day to your goals. Or if your goals are focused on weight loss and dietary changes, make them slowly, let them become a natural part of how you think and live.
I did say there was an invitation hanging out there, and here it is…
If you are like most people it takes between 14 and 21 days to form a habit. (14 for bad ones and 21 for good ones!) Let this blog be a help for you as you attempt develop new, better, healthier habits. Post your goals here and use this as a place to go for support. I will even send you a reminder email in a few weeks if you leave me an email at our facebook page (Pilsung ATA Martial Arts).
