I noticed a phenomenon. When people don’t like the results of this year they bad mouth the year and start anxiously awaiting the arrival of the New Year. The common belief is that the new “year” will automatically bring new “results.” That is a myth! If you bring the same “you” into the new year the new year will act just like the “old” year.

The calendar is consistent at changing, but if you don’t change the new calendar will still feel like the old one. If you expect new “results” without becoming a new “you,” you will be disappointed by the new “year.” By March you will find yourself losing faith in the new year. By October you will be asking the year to hurry and be over, thinking that another “new year” is going to produce the “new beginning” that you so desperately need. The truth is, if you don’t improve, neither will your results. Your results will change when you do.

How to Bring a New “You” to the New “Year.”

1. Don’t make promises to the New Year.

• If you have to wait for a new year to make a promise to improve, your chances of improvement are not very likely.
• Start making small but powerful adjustments in your thinking. It’s your thinking that determines your capacity to succeed.
• Decide to change your focus.

2. Start acting like the great person you were going to give yourself 5 years to become.

• How would the “you” you envision yourself being in 5 years think, respond, organize, create, and structure?
• Start doing (today) what you know the transformed you would do.
• If you have a vision of a better you, then you already have a model to copy.

3. Aggressively focus on your “incomes”–great incomes result in great “outcomes.”

• You can only give what you have.
• The reason you can’t keep the promises you make to the New Year is because it is not in you in the first place.
• Focus on what it is you want to be and become full of that. Internal process is what produces external progress.
• When you become full of a certain thing, it will spill out of you automatically.
• Focus on what you’re pouring in. Your incomes produce your outcomes.

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