Sometimes the change we need is less about self-improvement and more about blasting out of a rut. To bust out of the comfort zone trap, try aiming for a monthly stretch. Do one thing each month that stretches you beyond what’s easy, known, and comfortable.
What if, instead of spending your days trying to improve and excel by “getting it right,” you treated life as a learning lab, full of experiments and discovery?
Rather than aiming for one big bang of positive change at the start of the year, give yourself the opportunity for change over and over and over with New Month's resolutions (and even New Week's resolutions).
What if, rather than one big hurrah you hope will change everything (but probably won’t), you took an approach that keeps bringing you back to your aspired-to change? That's what setting a New Year's theme can do.
Don’t cheat yourself by relying on the big bang of a New Year’s resolution for positive change in the next year. Here are five more effective alternatives.
The ask-and-receive challenge is an opportunity to explore – month after month – the life-changing practice of both asking and receiving.
With a year like 2020, it can be tempting to put it in the rear view mirror, hit the gas, and leave it far behind. But if you do, you’ll be cheating yourself. You have already made the investment of a year of your life. You can either jump into the next year and never look back, or you [...]
If you want a simple, easily doable way to both change your life for the better and feel more adept at navigating stressful times, pay careful attention to what you feed your mind. One of the most common things that people do to feed (or perhaps more accurately, poison) their minds is mindless, [...]
Want to change your life for the better in the new year? Tap into the big power of thinking small. More specifically, take a lesson from the pointillists, the artists from a 19th century school of painting who created their paintings by applying dots of color, rather than brush strokes. When you [...]
What if, instead of asking, “what do I want to change this year,” you asked, “What’s my one-year vision?” The vision might be about, for example, something you want to do, an idea you want to set in motion, who you aspire to be, or a difference you want to make. There [...]