A new year is a new opportunity!

What if we had the same positive, non-stoppable attitude and self-discipline as we do at the first of the year? Things would be vastly differently in all of our lives if these attitudes prevailed for 365 days instead of 30 days or less. How do we hang onto the positive energy?

I’ve learned that more often than not resolutions don’t stick and that goal setting plans gets dusty. For years I’ve gone through days of goal setting, creating deadlines and planning that would make some weary just talking about it. Although goal setting can be beneficial, for me it had become more of a chore instead of an exciting activity to look forward to each year. That is, until I added an element that had been missing from the process…Feelings! Isn’t it bazaar that most of us create goals without any thought to how we want to feel when we obtain that goal?

One of the most strategic, creative, freeing and utterly brilliant questions I’ve asked myself is, “How do you want to feel?” Once I turned my focus toward how I wanted to feel and understood what I needed to do to feel the way I truly desired to feel, the idea of goal setting became exciting again. I had new energy. The process became completely different than it had in the past. Instead of creating a long page of text and measurements, which often made me feel heavy with responsibility and guilty if I didn’t measure up to my long list of goals, it became much more emotionally based and freeing. Learn more at https://peggyvasquez.net/striving-or-embracing/