Creating Your Personal Theme and Resolutions For The New Year

By: Joanna Lindenbaum
Submitted: 2009-06-30 13:20:58
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Each December, many of us begin making our New Year's Resolutions - lists of juicy and not-so-juicy goals we'd like to achieve over the year. We promise ourselves things like "Lose 10 pounds", "Create a Loving Relationship", "Take a trip to Costa Rica", "Eat Less Sweets"...Spend more time with my family.

Often we accomplish these resolutions, yet many times they remain nice thoughts that were quickly forgotten by the end of the first week of the year.

Does this sound familiar?

Its such a busy time of year - holiday parties, lots of food, shopping, socializing. For some of us, we have to put in the extra effort to stay connected to ourselves, our intuition, and our hearts.

In that spirit, I've written an article that will help stimulate your intuition and give you some yummy things to look forward to over the holiday season and this next year. I hope it inspires you to create your best year yet!

How many New Years resolutions have you made and broken,or worse yet - made and forgotten? Its all too common for each of us to set those resolutions aside as our lives get busy each year.

For the last few years I've found a fun, intuitive way to help create meaningful resolutions and stick to them. I do this by first creating a personal theme for my year and then by allowing resolutions to naturally flow from that theme. This article will focus on creating your personal theme for the New Year,.

By creating a theme for yourself each new year, you will be able to feel more fulfilled and stay aligned with your deepest desires. Once you uncover your theme, you commit to approaching each day and each thing you do with that theme in mind. Examples of Personal Themes include: Love, Acceptance, Gratitude, Self-Respect, Fun, Connection, Peace, Laughter, Health, Creativity, and much more.

My first yearly theme, four years ago, was "Abundance". I had recognized a deep need in my life that stemmed from always feeling a "lack" of something - feeling a lack of money, a lack of connection to myself, a lack of coaching clients, a lack of personal downtime, and a lack of feeling healthful.

While I could have simply made each of those things a separate resolution in my life, I was able to recognize that I needed to do some deep work around feeling like I was leading an abundant life - feeling that I had more than enough of what I needed and wanted instead of feeling like I was lacking in so many ways.

I realized that if I could approach my life with the theme - or attitude - of Abundance, I'd be able to create more money, more connection, more business, more time and more health. That year, I approached each day and each task with an attitude of Abundance.

I thought Abundant thoughts; I created activities for myself that helped me feel Abundant, and I paid particular attention during the moments that I felt I didn't have enough of something. Through that simple adjustment, I created more abundance in my life, achieved my resolutions, and learned some life-changing lessons along the way.

Creating a theme for your year will help you recognize what you want your year to BE and FEEL like, and then your goals and resolutions will come naturally from that place. At the end of the year, not only will you have been able to accomplish your goals, but you will have incorporated and mastered the FEELING of your theme in your life.

Take Action: Create Your Personal Theme for each NEW YEAR!

1) Make a list of what was missing from your life in the Past Year: Anything from "romantic partnership" to "enough sleep" to "financial freedom" to "exciting hobbies".

2) Make a list of all of the things you'd like to accomplish in the New Year: These can be big and small things, life changing resolutions as well as baby action steps.

3) Find the theme: Take a look at everything you'd like to accomplish in the New Year and ask yourself what you need to activate within yourself in order to accomplish those things. Perhaps you need patience, or courage, or sense of humor, or positive thinking.

4) Try out your theme: Whatever you come up with, close your eyes and imagine yourself moving through this next year with that quality completely amped up and activated. Can you see yourself? How does it feel? If it feels good, you've got your theme for the New Year!

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