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Happy New Year! We’re beginning a new year, and all around the world people are joining gyms, starting diets and possibly getting up early to write every day. This crazy tradition has us leaping to our emotional deaths by about the third week of January, as our zeal dims and our resolve reverses.
Does this make us failures? Depends on how we see success and failure. Trying is, in and of itself, a success. Because with each effort, we rule out one method; we have an opportunity to see why it failed and learn about ourselves and the universe as a result; and we have an opportunity to seek help.
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein
A coach or a mentor can change your level of consciousness, and your ability to solve your perennial problems. I keep morning pages, a la Julia Cameron, and have for over 10 years. And this year, because my life has changed so much since last time I drew up resolutions, I decided to look back and remember the onset of 2015 and what I wishing for and resolving. Same as this year’s resolutions: Lose weight, get back to exercising and set up my life to accommodate creative writing every day. Have I failed? Objectively? yes. I didn’t lose weight. I don’t have a new book this year. (I do still exercise fairly regularly. For The Win!!)
Can I do it this year? Only if I change my level of consciousness. This is why I’ll seek real help and change in perspective. I’m resolved this year to seek and apply real help from coaches, blogs, retreats, schools. What about you? What will it take to meet your resolutions?