I used to be that girl who after midnight on New Year\u2019s Eve (post a few drinks) shouted out a list of goals I knew would have a great impact on my life, but that I never would achieve. It was goals, I for a little while say a month or at tops two, would work really hard to reach, but after a while I totally resigned over. I was the New Year\u2019s Resolutions\u2019 Failure number one. I know, we have all been there.<\/p>\n
New Year\u2019s Eve 2012\/13 was different. A few months earlier I had came to a huge turning point in my life when I realized I had given up living, and succumbed to a life lived in fear. I found myself looking at myself in the mirror and couldn’t recognize who I had become. Where had that little excited girl I once was gone? I had reached the darkest point in my life, and I knew there was only one way forward. Up.<\/p>\n
I set off on a trip for seven weeks and I got my groove back. Since then I have reshaped my life and continue to be on a forever long personal development journey. One of the first things I did was to start to challenge myself through yearly, monthly and weekly goals. Instead of my past New Year\u2019s resolution failures, I took advice from experts who talked about the importance of evaluation. I not only now set goals, but I enforced a yearly (around New Year\u2019s Eve), monthly (when a new month starts) and weekly (Sundays) evaluation time to check what I have done to achieve the goals and what I can do differently in the future to get there. This has been the far most important routine not only for my own health, but also for my business.<\/p>\n
Last week I wrote a bit about my birthday routine, and that is the basis for my new New Year routine. What I do after assessing the past, present and future (as in the last blogpost) I start to set new goals for the 7 categories I find important in my life: spirituality, relationships, finance, service to others, career, health and hobbies. Through my monthly and weekly planning of how to achieve the goals and the evaluation of action taken I make sure I stay on track. Of course I miss the mark, sometimes a lot, sometimes not. It\u2019s a weekly, monthly and yearly chance to start fresh, to forgive the mistakes you made and start over.<\/p>\n
There is no more shallow New Year\u2019s resolutions in my life only very well thought through plans which forces me to take action which leads to change. The failures I make nowadays are failures I learn from and that I let guide me towards a change which leads me further along the road towards a fulfilling and happy life.<\/p>\n
So let\u2019s give up the old resolutions and let\u2019s invite thoughtful action. Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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