5 Steps To Take Charge Of Your #2016Mindset

 

 

2016 is your year.

 

 

Learn from the old cliché of new year’s resolutions, the normal notion of failures and disheartening attempts. Many people have become so afraid of this failure that they won’t make any New Year’s resolutions. They choose to believe they won’t work in order to protect themselves. Lose the terminology if it doesn’t suit you. It’s a goal. For today, tomorrow, for 2016, for your life.

 

There’s one big difference between those who go after and achieve their goals, those who fail, and those who fail by default for never setting any.

 

 

Mindset is a determinant of success.

 

 

The difference between those who pursue their goals, succeed or fail, or never try at all– is how they think about their goals, themselves, this world, and their actions.

 

A New Year’s resolution isn’t meant to be the only time we stop to think about our goals. It’s one of many times throughout the year, big and small.

 

A time to pause. Reflect. Redefine your dreams, and go after them.

 

We have to live with intent to become our best self. Our natural tendency to fall into autopilot makes it essential to be mindful about what we do, and who we are.

 

 

With the right mindset, 2016 is your year.

 

 

Our mindset influences our view of ourselves. Our goals. Our journey. The result.

 

2016 will be your year, because you will choose it to be. You’ll let yourself believe in it. You won’t allow your goals to slip away, because you want it. You want it bad, and you deserve it.

 

We have one life to live. We think this, we hear this. But do you feel it? Life, death. The gift of it all. Why would we not do everything in our power to get all that we want out of this life? We should not have to live our lives in partial contentment, half-satisfaction, excuses. We deserve more.

 

 

With commitment, 2016 is your year.

 

 

A new beginning is exciting. Riveting. This fresh excitement will begin to fade, keep that glimmer within you. Hope and willpower. It is essential that you continue to motivate yourself, and keep striving for your goals, your dreams. You must cultivate a purpose for them, and remind yourself of this purpose often.

 

Why do these goals matter? How can they change your life?

 

5 Steps To Take Charge Of Your #2016Mindset

1. Set goals for today, tomorrow, for 2016, for your life.

 

Scratch the term new year’s resolution and what you think of them. Choose to set these goals for yourself, for your life.

 

Goal setting is powerful.

 

Goals give you direction and clarity. Something to work towards to. A purpose.

 

 1) Write a big picture goal. Over the next 5 or 10 years,

What do you want? Who do you want to be?

 

2) Set detailed goals in different areas of your life.

Career, Social, Financial, Health (Mental and Physical)

 

3) Revisit and measure.

Have you been accomplishing your goals? Are they satisfying you?
This is a time to re-question what you want, pivot, and try again.
Be grateful for the journey, and appreciate your progress.

 

Write them down. Make them permanent within your mind and your environment. Visualize them.

 

Do you have any bad habits, people, a mindset that has become destructive in your life? Focus your energy towards creating a goal to alleviate the destructive energy. This will open up more room and energy to tackle other goals.

 

2. Cultivate the right mindset.

 

You need to feel worthy of your goals, that you deserve to achieve them. You must learn to be resilient in times when it becomes difficult.

 

Resilient. Committed. Self-aware. Courageous.

 

• Welcome challenges.
• Embrace and learn from failures.
• Talk to yourself positively, love yourself.
• Stay curious, and open-minded.
• Seek positivity and meaning in any situation.

 

It is important when you are thinking of your new goals to remember what you are gaining rather than what you are losing. If you are looking to eliminate bad habits, you need to focus on the positive of what you gain. Replacing the bad habit with something positive, healthier.

 

3. Take action, and hold yourself accountable.

 

Get out there! Go after your goals. Remove the personal limitations that you impose, and the feeling that you still aren’t ready yet. Whatever your goals may be, you can begin to work towards them. However small or big.

 

There’s no real secret behind hard work, besides hard work.

 

Be amazed and grateful throughout the process.
This is the real gift.

 

4. Understand the natural tendency of resistance.

 

Choose to continue anyway. Fight through the resistance. Our brains are naturally wired to choose decisions out of habits, conditioned thinking and behavior. This isn’t a failure on your part, this is from the necessary effort it takes to engrain our new habits within our mind. It’s okay to feel this way, it’s what you do next what counts. Keep going. You have power over your mind.

 

 

5. Live your life as your best you.

 

Always put in effort to live your life with intention. To think of your best self, and live from that place within yourself. This should always be our broader goal, but we can begin implementing smaller goals to work us towards it. We are all pieces of work that will never be finished, it’s the beautiful process that means something.

 

 

2016 is your year.

 

The new year is awaiting you. To become who you were meant to be.

Go after it.

 

 

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