Your New Year Revolution!

From the midnight of December 31st 2008 i started getting text messages of new year wishes. The texts were so many and the contents totally different. Much as i was happy and excited getting those texts, i was also thinking about the lives of those that sent them. What i concluded is that they can all succeed if they will do the necessary things needed to actualise those wishes.



Welcome to 2009, i want to assure you that this year will be whatever you want it to be:your best year ever. A lot of people made new year resolutions this year but i can guarantee you that most of those resolutions were mere wishes. This is because there is neither will power nor burning desire to carry it out. Most people forget their new year resolutions at the end of January. But why i don't blame such people much is that they don't know much about goal-setting and visualization.



I have noticed a pattern of behaviour among many people each year. In January the air will be filled with a sweet aroma of people excitedly reeling out what they will do and what they will stop doing in the new year, their expectations for the year and what they will achieve. But by the tail end of the year between November and December, despondency will set in, everywhere i turn my nostrils will be assaulted by the stench of unfulfilled dreams, unmet goals and unsatisfied aspirations.



One of my mentors told me that for you to stop a pattern of occurrence from repeating in your life year after year, there are things you need to learn and there are things you need to unlearn.Which siply means that there are things you should start doing and there are things you should stop doing. Since all human achievement begins with a thought, i believe that your transformation should begin from the inside, that is why i came with the title of New Year Revolution to eliminate all those parasitic elements that works against your resolutions. Firstly, what is the state of your mental attitude? Is it positive or negative? At birth our mental attitude is neutral. What determines its state is the type of things it is fed with:the type of information you consume.



For instance, in the brain there is what is known as the Reticular Activating System (RAS) whose function is to regulate and process the thoughts coming into the brain. There are millions of thougths that are coming into the brain on daily basis, it is the RAS that controls and filters those that will go in. One intersting thing is that the RAS works with the state of mental attitude. It receives signal from the mental attitude. If your mental attitude is positive, the RAS will allow only thoughts that in conformity with positivity to go in and vice versa. That is why an optimist will see the contents of a bottle as half full but a pessimist will see it as half empty. An optimist will see an opportunity in obstacles but a pessimist will see only obstacles in opportunity.



  resolve to turn around the state of your mental attitude, it is very vital because your attitude determines your altitude. Read self-improvement books, attend seminars, listen to tapes, if possible let a coach mentor you. The year is still fresh, all your dreams and heart desires for the year will be accomplished, but you must defeat your number one enemy. Want to know the person? take a look at the mirror.

         You will succeed.