5 New Years Resolutions You May Not Have Thought Of

New Years Resolutions seem to be about as serious as a wager over a ballgame. But really, what better occassion to make something out of a tradition and create something new?

Here are a few resolutions that I hope are worth sharing with some of you out there, who may be struggling with the same human condition that I’ve got:

1. Try My 15-Minute Morning Workout & You’ll Be Hooked

This is a game-changer. It’s something I started doing just in October of this year and I can tell you the results have been phenomenal for me. No fan mail yet -- but a high level of strength, tone, flexibility, and structural support after only 3 months.

Here’s what you do. Wake up. All you need is a bit of floor space. You want to do 2 different types of standing leg exercises (10 reps for each leg, per exercise), then 2 types of leg exercises while on all fours. Then, what you’ll want to do is about 10 or maybe 15 push-ups. Finally, get on your back and squeeze out as many crunches as you can, pivoting in 7 different directions total to work all those muscles in your lower back area (lets say around 40 or 50 crunches total). If you’re feeling really crazy, you can whip out the pull-up bar after all that and do a couple pull-ups.

That should have taken 10-15 minutes total. Now here’s the key, and you can do this before or after the exercise part: You need to stretch, every limb, every which way, nothing crazy but enough to limber up for the day. I personally do about 15 stretches total (some are doubled up to stretch both sides) for about 5 seconds per stretch. This should take 5 minutes.

Boom. You’re done. Working out first thing in the day is pretty much the best time, in terms of total max benefit for your body. Your metabolic rate will be bumped up higher for the entire day, and you will actually rest better the following evening as your pineal gland will be more activated.

2. Write Your Goals Down 2X / Day

This one sort of multiples the New Years Resolution exercise times 730, doesn’t it? It’s really simple. Write your goals down first thing in the morning (after working out & stretching let’s say), and again as the last thing you do before you go to bed at night. Your subconscious brain seems to be more of a willful servant at these times, if you want to ‘program’ it a little bit with some of your goals.

The brain is constantly trying to interpret data and find solutions -- like a calculator or computer. By defining your goals, clearly, frequently, you are giving your machine a constant stream of reliable data for it to solve. Your goals need solving don’t they? You’ll be amazed at the autopilot functions of the mind. Ladies and gentlemen, this one could open up doors for you that will have you reacting in practical disbelief...

3. Spend Time Away from Mobile Devices

Are you using your phone, or is it using you? This is my most controversial resolution. But everybody can admit that, in the last 20 years, our species has virtually transformed into a new sub-species that’s basically plugged into a data grid which now grows in intelligence faster than we do!

The one thing that technology will never surmount is the power of the human spirit. 2018 will be a year that I hope more people will tune in to their own amazing spiritual selves and abilities to change the world.

There’s something about the cell phone or computer that bastardizes the amazing completeness of the human being, and for that reason, I resolve to leave those tools aside, on the shelf, or in a drawer, from time to time.

Only you can know how often you should take a break from the SuperRobot you carry around in your pocket. Maybe at night you can leave it off. Maybe when you’re at home you forward your cell number to a landline. Maybe when you go out for a pleasant dinner you leave your smartphone in the car, and totally absorb the experience of your present company.

I’ve already found my own workable balance when it comes this sort of machinery. I’m a bigtime user of technology and I love how it makes our lives easier and creates opportunities. There is definitely a time and a place for it -- and you may come to realize it ain’t 100%, 24/7, 365 like it has been for you since you got your first one. I get the feeling that in 2018 a select few more people will get in touch with the full, unadulterated experience of their own divine existence -- from time to time.

4. Reactivate Your Social Power Base

Have you been a bad friend? Have you been ‘out of the loop’? ‘Off the map’? Boy, I have got some work to do here my friends...

The resolution here is to take responsibility for the ‘falling-out’, and make the call. Call your old friends. Call your sort-of-old friends. Call relatives and old work contacts and people you are only distantly connected with. Text people on their birthdays! It’s never been easier to keep track.

I promise you nobody is going to be mad at you for calling them, seeing how they’re doing, taking an interest in them, and re-expressing your loyalty and affection for them! In fact, as soon as you call Jane and reconnect (re-activate), I’ll bet you anything Jane’s going to be saying, ‘Boy. I should have called. I’ve been meaning to call.’

Everybody is going to love receiving this call, text, email, social media interaction, whatever. You’re actually reactivating TWO powerbases here -- yours and your dear comrade’s, by re-activating yourself in THEIR powerbase.

There’s a definite reluctance to making this call. Your apathetic self might say, “Why bother?” Look, you never know where connections can lead! Take an interest in other people and make it about them. This level of trust and comradary is the perfect mixture to LATER ON introduce some business and/or pleasure in the relationship, if you discover an opportunity to do so. For now, make it about the friendship and about your support for another person. Besides, in 10 more years, after you still haven’t called them, do you think it’s going to get any easier to make that call?

5. Create Urgency & Do More Faster

Fast is the new big. This resolution is mega because it can be added to everything. The more you start writing your goals down, the more you might realize that YOU are the number-one thing standing in the way of your goals being completed. Why? Because you’re wasting time! We all do it. It’s easy to do. Here in the USA, it’s become a revered art and respectable pastime. We brag about it on Monday mornings and joke about it to make it seem OK.

Resolution #5 is the hardest to pull off BY FAR. You might go a full morning, or even a couple of days, and really get on a roll -- really get a lot done, with a super amount of productivity, organization, accomplishment, and clarity of what you are doing.

You better watch out: It won’t take long for somebody to grab the hem of your shirt and pull you towards them -- slowing you to a crawl and then to a stop. “Why are you in such a rush?” They might ask you, “Hey what’s the hurry? Stop here and relax for a bit.” Be warned: Inactivity is as dangerous a landmine as anything else out there.

Creating urgency will create everything else you need to create -- faster.

2018 is a massive window of opportunity that has opened, in terms of technology, humanity, society and business. Now is the time to take rapid action in a big way! Good luck to us all.

Yrs. truly,

Dave Escamilla