Happy New Year!!!

With the promise of a new year comes the “resolve” to do things or change things.  Well, thanks to Darren Hardy of Success Magazine, I now know that resolutions or goals don’t work! Whhhaaat?

At our December Director Summit in Nashville, Darren explained how goal setting puts the focus on the things we don’t have, so a negative perspective. I want to lose weight  focuses on I’m fat. I want to get out of debt puts the focus on how broke I am. Since what we focus on expands. We get more weight gain and more debt. So we end up breaking our goal or resolution within only a few months, weeks or even days of starting.

So then what do you do?

Well, Darren asked us to write down everything we are thankful for in 2009. Then choose the things we want more of in 2010. Now we’re building on what we have and shifting our focus into abundance thinking.

WOW!! This really made sense to me. The light bulb went off and quickly turned into a bright spotlight!  Then my mind raced back to one of my favorite movie quotes: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986.

I then recalled how our President, Albert Bosch, had shared with us back in February, that he and his wife have a planning meeting every first of the year. They review the past year and plan the upcoming year for themselves as a couple and for their family.

So I put both Albert’s & Darren’s two wonderful ideas together!

I started two lists. One for what I am thankful for personally and one for what I am thankful for professionally.  A list I am completing today as soon as I complete this post.  From those lists I will create my “more list” for 2010.  I’ve asked my husband to do the same. This afternoon, we will compare notes. Work together to decide what we want more of for each other as a couple and how we can support each other’s “more lists” in 2010.

But I’m not stopping there….

This coming week, I’m also talking to my friends, family and team mates to learn their “more list” and how I can help support them.  Many I’ve already scheduled appointments with to do just that!

So I encourage you to join me in abandoning the frivolous negative focus on resolution setting. Instead, build on what you already have and want more of.  Today is a gift, which is why it is called the present.  Then connect with family, friends and coworkers to learn their “more lists”.  In the words of our Regional VP Charla Gervers, “You have to do something radically different to get radically different results”!  So let’s shake things up and get back to basics. An attitude for gratitude and abundance thinking!

Check out Darren Hardy & Success Magazine. You’ll be glad you did!

Have a SPAtacular Year and MORE of the things that fill your life with joy!

Be more, achieve more and serve more in 2010!!!