Be a catalyst for CHANGE.

There's an email I get in my inbox everyday. It's called "The Daily Wake Up Call to the Inbox of Your Mind," and comes from The Elephant Journal.  http://www.elephantjournal.com/ Here's the link. It's free to sign up.
Yesterday, the first article was nothing more than this photo.


How often do we think about change? Every year, millions of people make New Year's resolutions. Recent research suggests that only about 8% of us are successful. I wonder why...is it fear, is it change, or perhaps is it the FEAR OF CHANGE.

Many people make a resolution expecting to bring about drastic change. They want to revolutionize their life and, in doing so, come up with an elaborate and maybe daunting set of unattainable tasks. When one goal isn't achieved, they throw out the entire revolutionary idea and instead go back to the status quo.

This year, let's start making change with just one thought or just one goal. Make a list of goals you'd like to achieve. Your list can be as simple as getting double unders to a body weight snatch to as complex as losing 40 pounds and having a better sex life.  How does that list go with your values and morals as a person? Do you have someone in your life who will be encouraging? Or, are the people in your life keeping you down? What changes do you need to make in your environment to achieve that one goal? After you've made your list, live with it for a few days before you actually do anything about it. Put it on the bathroom mirror. Read it every day. After three days, set the wheels in motion.

Patience...it will pay off. Goal achieving doesn't happen overnight. We live in an instant gratification society. We want it bigger, better, faster, and we want it now.

This weekend, I was out to dinner with some friends. I won't bore you with the details of our conversation, but several questions were brought up, none of which we had the answers.  Instead of just saying, "I don't know" and continuing to talk, we all got out our smart phones with our Google app. In 45 seconds (I have AT&T service that is slow as molasses in January in Canada), I had the answer. I didn't have to think about it. Just had to type and VOILA! It was there.

How often do we think of our goals the way we think of googling the answer to a question? A good goal that is beneficial to your growth as a human being isn't going to be achieved in 45 seconds. Even if you have Verizon and your service is better than AT&T.

I challenge you this week to do 2 things:
1.  Make a list of achievable goals.
2.  Put away your smart phone when you are with friends or family.

Enjoy the slowness of life, learn patience, and take a walk down that road in which you have never been. It's called CHANGE. And it starts with you.