A Blank Canvas
2016 – A Blank Canvas
So the year 2016 stretches out before us, a blank canvas, awaiting your personal imprint.
Do you ever make New Year’s Resolutions? I think at some point or another most of us have set New Year’s Resolutions, and, just as monotonously, most of us have failed to keep those resolutions. Eventually, after trying and quitting so many times, it becomes almost a habit and an expectation and inevitably we end up deciding to not bother making them anymore.
Of course, the beginning of a New Year is always an auspicious time to set some goals and a fresh New Year deserves a fresh new start and outlook, but unlike New Year’s Resolutions, goals can be set at any time.
And from here, some of us graduate to Goal Setting. This can be a great improvement over creating New Year’s Resolutions, which, by their very reputation (and the fact that they are often made in high spirits, over several glasses of celebratory drinks, at midnight on the last day of the Old Year), are almost certainly doomed to failure.
If you have hopes, dreams and ambitions, setting goals is a great way to begin achieving them.
Goal Setting is a systematic approach to reaching for and realizing your dreams and goals.
The Conventional Way of Goal Setting:
SMART GOALS ARE:
By its very nature, this is a much more efficient way of working towards your hearts desires than New Year Resolutions, and your results are more likely to be attained, but even this approach has its detractors.
But what if there was a New Way of Goal Setting?
A way of setting goals that encompasses Mind, Body and Spirit, a holistic approach to goal setting?
Just as there has been a recent trend in Adult Art Therapy, as evidenced by the proliferation of Adult Coloring Books available, so too is there a new trend in Goal Setting and Dream Creation, and it starts with taking a less theoretical and more creative approach to goal setting.
It all starts with a Dream. What are your Hopes and Dreams for 2016?
A new relationship? A New Home? Travel? A Car? New Things? Stuff? New Experiences? New Knowledge or Education?
DARE TO DREAM.
DREAM BIG!
Remember when you were a kid? Nothing was impossible. You knew FOR SURE that when you grew up you would be a Cowboy, or a Fireman or an Astronaut, or an Actress or a Supermodel or a Movie Star, Singer or Rock Star – so what’s stopping you now?
Okay, your dreams may have changed. You may no longer want to be a Cowboy, Astronaut, Actress or Rock Star. The point is, when you were a kid, you had the imagination to be whoever you wanted to be, unlimited. If you wanted to be Pilot or a Ship’s Captain, that’s who you became, who you were. No doubts, no fears, no limits
You didn’t say I want to be a Millionaire but I’m too young, too poor, too dumb, too….
So what’s changed?
DREAM SETTING:
What is the ULTIMATE GOAL I AM TRYING TO ACHIEVE THIS YEAR?
(What do you want?)
WHY IS THIS GOAL IMPORTANT TO ME?
(Why do you want it?)
How do my smaller goals tie into it?
ONCE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT AND WHY YOU WANT IT, YOU CAN START MOVING TOWARDS IT.
Achieving your goals and dreams may entail hard work and sacrifice. It may you require you to try new things, do things differently, stretch yourself. It will require faith, belief, imagination and creativity.
It may even require a little luck! But when you start moving towards your dreams new opportunities and avenues that you never knew existed may open up to you.
You will learn and grow. And in a year from now you will be in a different place to where you are right now!
GOLDEN RULES FOR DREAM SETTING :
Think Big
You need to stretch yourself
Your Dreams and Goals should be BIG, EXCITING & FUN!
You need to COMMIT - Regardless of “I don’t feel like it” or I don’t want to”
Create a Dream Board/Vision Board as a Daily Reminder
Think, Feel, Imagine, Believe your Dream every day
Take Actions towards your Dream Every Day
WHAT COLOURS WILL YOU PAINT YOUR CANVAS?
AIthough no-one can guarantee you will achieve all your goals and dreams, it is almost an absolute certainty, that if you don’t try, it’s a very good probability that you wont!
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And: This Is Your Canvas for 2016.How will you fill it?
