I have a friend of a friend in the athletic club business. For many businesses January is a slow month, but not in his industry. He reaps the benefits of many people’s New Year’s resolutions. January through March is the busiest time of the year for him to sell club memberships.
But he’s not happy about that. “It makes me sad when all these people drop off of their resolutions and stop showing up. We’d rather see them stick it out and really see results.”
What New Year’s resolutions have you already abandoned? I heard the joke that NYR’s are really only a To Do List for the first week of a new year. I agree with the athletic club director; it is kind of sad.
What if you were able to achieve your dreams, begin activities that empower you, and stuck with them? What qualities would actions have if you could take them out of the realm of “resolution,” and insert them into the realm of “life activities?”
This begins with forming the “Big Picture” of your life — goals, dreams, and projects. Give yourself the benefit of some breathing space to formulate and dream your Big Picture. What are your ultimate goals? Don’t you notice those times that you really set your mind to attain a goal nothing gets in your way? You don’t interact with your life as a bunch of resolutions; you interact with activities as things that you must get done to forward you in achieving the Big Picture.
Sticking with the health theme, let’s say that you suffer from bone loss. Weight bearing exercise is known to increase bone mass, so going to the gym to lift weights is no longer a NYR to eliminate your holiday over-eating guilt. It becomes an actual lifestyle change to enable you to live long and healthy — accomplishing one aspect of your Big Picture!
If elevated blood pressure from your job is compromising your health, you don’t “resolve” to take medications and add some stress-relieving activities like yoga, walking or meditation. You look at your kids and decide to change your life with your Big Picture in mind.
Discovering your Big Picture may result from a trip to the doctor, or it may come during a relaxed moment on vacation. If you haven’t had a relaxed moment where you can think, stress free, allowing thoughts to flow to you, take a moment now. Or schedule it, and make it happen.
A client told me the story of a time she found her young son sprawled across the bed, hands behind his head, staring at the ceiling. She asked him what he was doing. “Nothing,” he said, smiling. “Just daydreaming.” She was so pleased that he knew how to take time out for himself, and she wondered where along the way she had lost that ability.
If you need help creating some down time, bringing your Big Picture into focus, and determining what life changing activities will become part of your life —not merely temporary resolutions— I would be honored to help you discover them.
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