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Happy New Year!
Did you
know that the New Year comes twice a year? This is not a new
phenomenon but it’s one of the best kept secrets.
The new year
doesn’t have to come once a year. With the changing season of
summer into fall, it’s a wonderful opportunity to begin another new
year new you. Winter, spring and summer have done their job by
nurturing and stretching our bodies with warmth, exercise and
relaxing vacations. But when nature presents us with an artist
color palette and cool breezes, it’s time to start another new year
of growth, change and opportunity.
The signs
of fall are obvious. Children going back to school, the smell
of crayons and fresh notepads, leaves changing, hayrides, and
pumpkin gathering to name a few. As we settle into new
routines from raking leaves to football and soccer games, we can
reflect on the beauty of nature but also how far we have come over
the last 9 months.
Here are a
few intriguing questions to guide your direction in planting fall
seeds for change.
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Have I
actively planned goals for personal, career, financial and social
areas of my life?
Goal
planning is key to achieve what you want out of this one time go
around called life. From small personal goals such as “going
to the bank” to larger goals such as a career change, planning is
necessary to feel accomplished and in control of your own destiny.
Goal planning is not a large awesome task reserve for highly
educated people. It’s for everyone at any time in your life.
From age 10 through 100, it’s never too late to plant your feet
firmly in the direction of the future that you have designed.
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Are there
relationships that need mending that I have control over the
outcome?
Have you
forgiven those who have hurt you deeply whether they deserve it or
not or are you carrying special feelings regarding the
relationship? More times than not, the other person
has no idea the degree of which you have been hurt. So who is the
one that is truly suffering…you. It may be time to have a
heart to heart with yourself and determine “is this really worth
it”. Many a person’s health and future have been sacrificed
due to relationships that were not properly mended. Take the
higher ground and put your self on the plus side of life by taking
control of the mending process. There are many solutions to
get what you both want and need emotionally.
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Are my
personal, career and spiritual life areas in balance
to what’s important to me?
Balance, that eluding place we all want to aspire in life.
Are we every truly balanced in all areas of our life? The
answer is no. Day to day our lives change with different
experience, needs, wants and desires. We need to find the
middle ground between where we want to go verses what is happening
today that stops us from achieving an almost balanced life.
This is accomplished by determining personal standards of success
as well as setting boundaries and priorities. Understand
that you can create the life you want but not without determining
what is important and living by those values.
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Am I
living to the beat of my core values?
Core values are positions that you take in life. Those that mean
the most to you and make you angry when violated. We each
carry with us a set of core values which is similar to an internal
personal guide. When any of your core values are challenged,
it brings out the worst in you because someone is challenging your
core value system. You need to determine “what are my core
values”? If your personal life and career centers
around those core values, you can expect to be happy and
fulfilled. If there is something that rubs one or more of
you core values the wrong way, you feel anxiety and less
fulfilled. Living to the beat of your core value system will
open up an array of opportunities as well as challenges. Would you
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As the
leaves begin to fall from the trees and we gather haystacks and mums
for fall decoration, begin to harvest your own direction for growth.
With the cool, sunny and crisp days, it’s a great time to reflect,
rejuvenate and regain the control of your own destiny. A new
year begins the moment you determine areas of change. Chart
your course. Chart your destiny. Do it for you, today!
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