In Your Success Zone Blog

Resolutions or Intentions to Create?

 

It's that time again! Making up the list of Resolutions for the New Year is as much a part of the holiday  season as parties, gifts, and reconnecting with family and friends.

Well, I'm not doing it. I'm not making a Resolutions list any more - it's too durn much like going on a diet - which is almost always on everyone's Resolutions list and gets shuttled by the end of January. 

Nope, I'm making a "What I Intend to Create in 2009" list. It just is more fun and inviting. And I know I will actually do what is on that list.

As I look back on my Intentions to Create list from 2008, I find I have achieved everyone of my intentions. On my (very short on purpose) list were

1. I write daily
2. I love myself and others 
3. I actively engage in my life  

I didn't know how these intentions would show up or what I would have to do to become the person that does these things. But this year Life has offered my opportunities to grow in each of the areas listed. And I have found ways to respond so that I am writing, loving, and engaging more now than a year ago.

So I'm upping the ante for 2009 and going bigger. Here's my list of what I Intend to Create in 2009:

1. I am powerful and prosperous 
2. I create and contribute 
3. I love life fully  

Yep, it'll be a stretch, but I know that Life and I will work it out.

How about you? What do you intend to create in 2009? 

Another Gift for You

Today is Boxing Day in England, the day when the gifts are given to the community outside of one's family. I am taking this opportunity to give you a gift.

If you celebrate Christmas, did you get the gifts you wanted yesterday?

Is there anything else you would like - something intangible or spiritual?

Something like 

• more peace
• more love 
• more creative ideas and expression
• more abundance 
• more joy 
• more confidence? 

Please choose something you would like in your life.

Stop and imagine it already existing in your life.

Close your eyes and feel its presence in your life.

Savor it. It is now yours. Looks for clues of its presence and say "Thank you".

Holiday Wishes

As we in the Northern Hemisphere celebrate the shortest days of the year, light is an ancient custom of hope and cheer.

In Orange Park, Florida where I am spending Christmas with my brother, we have made the trek to see the most enthusiastically lit house in the neighborhood. Many flashing multi-colored strands of light, numerous inflated decorations, and holiday songs playing from a boombox proclaim the homeowners' belief in light and cheer this time of year. Their decorations are not staid nor are the lights perfectly aligned in neat rows. 

To be frank, the decorations are a bit gaudy, messy, and flashy - kinda like life. The sheer exuberance of these decorations make me grin.

My holiday wish for you is a lightness in your life that makes you smile. HAVE A HAPPY!