The 2 F***** words WORTH paying attention to!!

The New Year began just a few days ago…..there was celebration and great resolve in the air. The first few days of the year feel like they have been super charged with some special fuel and gifted to us. It’s a period where most of the privileged world takes their reflections of the past year and creates something we call "New Year Resolutions" (EYE ROLL!!)

Surprisingly year after year by week three, it’s business as usual and life begins to take over. We begin to witness all those lame jokes about the resolutions failing, come true right in front of our eyes. Statistics say that only 9 per cent of the people who actually make resolutions follow through.

That almost make the most intelligent species on this planet come across as so weak and feeble.

If there are 2 F**** words that everyone can add to their daily habit dictionaries this new year….they should be the words FOCUS and FLOW. Focus to me means not losing sight and Flow means continuity. If you pay close attention to both the words there is one common value at the foundation of both these words and that is PERSISTENCE.

Any effort without continuity or consistency becomes a wasted effort and that is what lies at the bottom of our many failed missions.

Persistence is really the ability to continue doing something irrespective of the obstacle/distraction in the way. In fact, the word resolute would be a synonym for persistence. Simply put, a resolution would mean persistence.

So if there was only one new year resolution to be made….It should be …I will be more persistent in my effort to change. Research says that the persistence is higher when you are able to make the journey to change…. FUN!! Yes…. fun adds more momentum to a goal wanted to be accomplished than the right reason. So we all know that being overweight is detrimental to our health but that is not sufficient enough to make the change. A challenge between a couple of friends added to that can make it the real deal. Fun then becomes the bonus F** word to add to our life dictionary??

 The four pillars that allow for better Focus and Flow are:

C larity: To know very specifically and clearly what you want and how you are going to get there.

O pportunity: To seize every opportunity that will come your way in the next 365 days.

M indset: A mindset that does not give up with a few failures along the way.

E ffective action: It’s all about doing!! The more you do something consistently about your goal, the closer you get to achieving it. 

Check frequently with yourself:

• What is my focus for today/this hour?
• What could get in my way of flow?

 Wish you COME closer to your dreams this year with Focus, Flow and Fun!!