We’re a couple of weeks into the new year. How are your resolutions coming along? Are you still feeling the enthusiasm and determination you started out with? Or are you already beginning to find yourself slacking off or losing momentum?
In order to keep yourself in the flow and moving forward, be sure to monitor your thoughts and words. What are you rehearsing? In other words, if you’re thinking, “I want to lose weight, but it’s so hard.” Guess what? It’ll be hard, and all kinds of obstacles will hinder any progress you happen to make, or sabotage you before you even begin.
Furthermore, when you speak those thoughts out loud, it makes it even more solid in your reality. Let’s say you want more money, and you decide to buy a lottery ticket in hopes of getting a big pay out. Then you say to the person selling you the ticket, “I don’t know why I play the lottery; I never win.” Well, you’re reinforcing that you don’t win, and extra money isn’t likely to make its way to you.
Thoughts become things. What you think about and speak about really matters, so choose to focus on what you want to bring into your life rather than what you don’t. Like someone trying out for a part in a movie, taking on the traits of the character they are portraying, you have to start taking on the characteristics of the person you want to become. That means rehearsing for the life you want to create for yourself by speaking as if it’s now occurring (in present tense) and feeling the awesomeness of having reached your perfect weight, or having enough money to live comfortably, etc., while at the same time, not attaching to a specific form of how it will arrive for you.
Rehearse how you want to feel when you are living the life you want. Train your brain to think and speak as if you already are. Be open to infinite possibilities and be ready for wonderful surprises.
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
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