The way we leave a place (not just
physical place but mental and emotional as well) determines the way we enter
the next place. I am aware that at the end of every year most people review the
year that’s gone by, and make New Year’s resolutions or decisions to do better
next year or a commitment to reforming an aspect of their life.
Most of these are set in the future
tense, such as, “I will be a better husband, I will work harder”. Sadly the year goes by and few of these resolutions
are ever met. So we make new ones, or remake the old, but our resolutions largely
remain unfulfilled or abandoned.
As we take a deeper look at those
statements, notice that they are set in the future tense. They can never be
fulfilled because the future never arrives. The future is always something that
is going
to happen. So a new year’s resolution, set in the future tense, can never be
fulfilled.
I believe that the unprincipled are
always at the mercy of the principled. Organization is a principle and so in
the same way the unorganized will also always be at the mercy of the organized.
That is why I’m writing so many
weeks before the New Year, 2010, so that we are prepared and ready with
affirmations for the New Year that will change our lives positively.
For affirmations to become
effective we have to visualize what we want, verbalize it and then connect
strong positive emotions to that affirmation. This year let us all make new
years affirmations, not resolutions.
As we make these affirmations, I believe we will be surprised, maybe even
shocked, but we will certainly see changes we‘ve not experienced before.
