New Year’s vs. New Moment’s Resolutions

My 2007 “To Manifest” list is perched front and center in my daily planner. I choose to keep it close to me, to see it daily. This helps to remind me everyday of the reality I want to create for myself. It forces me to dissect the goals and formulate action steps that can be divided into quarters, months, weeks, and days.

It’s funny, the whole New Year’s Resolution-setting phenomena. That first week of January, everybody is full of excitement and resolve. By the end of the month, the diets are shot, the cutting back on spending, drinking, smoking, etc., has all been recklessly abandoned.

A slip-up occurs and the entire commitment is dropped. A return to the old cycle, the old pattern, the old self ensues.

People underestimate their ability to change. (Giving up is familiar and comfort resists change – even when the comfort is misery.) It’s easier for us to deny our power than it is for us to stand in, and manipulate, our pulsating bright, white light.

As Marianne Williamson states, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.”

It’s okay to forgive yourself for a slip-up, pick up the pieces, and try again. Isn’t that what this plane is all about? Continuing to pick yourself up and stumble forward, preferably making the time and space for some dancing & laughter along the way?

Changing patterns takes work. It takes dedication and forgiveness.

I’m embracing the concept of “New Moment’s Resolutions”.

This takes the whole, “Well, I fucked up. See, I knew I couldn’t change,” element out of the equation and shifts it to, “Damn I fucked up. I did it again. Okay, that’s okay. Because as time streamlines forward I am now in a new moment. A new beginning.”

Life is always going to pitch another chance. We have the choice to keep swinging the bat in hopes that eventually the connection will occur all the while knowing that the possibility exists to get pelted by a wild pitch.

This thinkology also helps me to be an active participant in the present more. Every day I’m working with creating healthier, more positive actions and reactions. When painful or difficult situations arise, I immediately recognize the negative pattern sliding into gear.

“Maybe she won’t notice. Maybe she’ll just go with it.”

I acknowledge it’s presence and I release it.

And I create something better.

It’s a damn shame that most people gather the strength to try and consciously commit to change only once a year.