Anti Aging You

A few years ago when I was teaching at the Learning Annex I was asked if I would teach another class on procrastination. I thought about why anyone who was a procrastinator would come to a procrastination class. Wouldn’t they just procrastinate coming to the class at all?

If you’ve ever studied goal setting or the setting of New Year’s resolutions, you undoubtedly must have heard that the average New Year’s Resolution is out the door after the first 3 weeks into the New Year. Why is this?

There are many, many reasons as to why someone delays goals, forgets them, changes them, and so on. The overall reasons differ for everyone; a quicker explanation is the following: Not only are people trying to do it all alone and without support, most people put way too many goals on their plate, be it for their daily or their yearly goals. To add to that overwhelm most people are their worst critic and the moment they “fail,” at least that’s how they feel about missing one of their goals, all the other goals go out the window, hands are thrown up in the air, towels are thrown in, you know the drill. And the fact that we shared our initially enthusiastic ambitions with the wrong people who now are in our faces saying: “I told you so.”

There is a way to achieve ultimate success in 2008!

The first thing to do is to listen to your Higher Self. This is not a joke. We are all different about how we react towards setting goals. To Jane Doe a test is a nightmare come true and to Joe Blow a test is his greatest motivator. A deadline to one person may cause him undue hardship, stress and sleepless nights, whereas to me the tighter the deadline and the more complicated the task, the more revved up I get to achieving my deadline early.

For example, the most famous New Year’s Resolution most undoubtedly be the issue of losing weight. No matter where you look at this time of the year, we are being harassed by seemingly endless diets that ought to get rid of the holiday excess. In my opinion one of the stupidest New Year’s Resolutions is wanting to lose x-number of pounds. Besides being unrealistic and a set up for failure I find it unloving and unkind to our bodies and only makes us feel like we’re being punished for something. Prison are indeed meant to be broken out of , and we all do by week 3.

So instead of sending yourself to prison on the first of each year, try this instead: Your one and only goal is to always feel amazingly great and fit.

When your object of desire becomes to feel great and fit, then you’ve ordered your scale to take a back seat and the scale has lost its power (because you no longer care what it has to say about you). If, however, you make a specific number a goal to achieve, then you’ve hired your scale to be the CEO of your body. Just like employees don’t care as much about the company achieving its financial goals as they care about being treated with love and respect, your body’s members want to feel the same. All your body wants is to be appreciated, cared for, well-fed (not over-fed), loved, cuddled, paid attention to and used for its original intention (to get you through life gloriously).

Are you getting it?

Order your body to take care of the weight loss part automatically. It was first created to work for you at its optimal capacity. The only thing you have to do is to pay attention to it, to listen to it, to love it and not to treat it right. Once your body feels that you are cooperating by showing it respect, it has no choice but to give you the same in return by bringing out the most gorgeous king or queen that you are already.

So this year make only one New Year’s Resolution: Respect yourself and your body, love yourself and your body, pay attention to your Soul’s wisdom instead of other people. Believe that you are protected by divine order. And the doors which open easiest for you in 2008 are the ones you are meant to walk through.

By the time you get to the end of 2008 and if you have faithfully held to this one desire, you will be in ecstasy, joy and amazement at how easy things fell into place for you this year. It’s pure magic indeed.

May this be your best year ever!