Steps to success in 2008

Dec 29 2007 by Hannah Davies, The Journal

JUST a few more days to go until New Year’s Eve.

All night you will tell everyone how great 2008 will be.

How you will go to the gym more, get that body you have always wanted. You will get a pay rise, quit work and start a new career. You honestly believe at that time this time you will do it.

This time is different, you’re thinking. You’re telling everyone how serious you are.

You wake up in the morning. January 1 already? Your resolutions don’t seem as important. You headache is more important you wonder what you were saying.

The next day you actually accept that your list was too long. Your long list of resolutions is much shorter. But you’re determined to do it. But just one thing, you want to just “settle into 2008” first.

Sorry to tell you this, but it’s all lies.

We usually tell ourselves four lies on New Year’s Eve.

1. “This year is going to be different”

The sad truth for the majority. The New Year will be exactly the same as 2007 as most people will start off exactly the same as it was last year.If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

2. “The goals don’t seem as important anymore”

Yes they are, and you know it.

They are very important only you’re scared about failing so instead you lie about their importance.

3. “They’re just silly fantasies”

With this lie you’ve started to justify why your goals are impossible and use all kinds of excuses disguised as “reasons” as to why your goals are unrealistic.

4. “I’ll settle in and get sorted”

What an excellent lie. Just one more takeaway dinner, then next week I will start my new health kick.

Hang on there one second. What about last year.

Was work, university or just taking time to settle in the reason you failed to stick to your plans?

Be honest with yourself. You know that lie number four is simply a delay tactic, that “one day” lie that we all tell ourselves in order to get out of taking action when we know we could, when we know we should.

Whatever your one day excuse is, the results are the same... Zilch.

Now, if you’ve read this far you’ve probably recognised many of these lies as ones you’ve told yourself in the past, and maybe even ones you’re still telling yourself now.

But, like many people, you have no real idea about how to break free from the habit of creating ‘wish-lists’ and then lying about why they didn’t come true.

In short, you’re not really that sure about how to make 2008 any better than 2007 was.

If this is the case you need to read again in two weeks time because I am going to give you the most powerful system to see you get exactly what you want in 2008.

All you have to do is get a pen, paper and follow the six little steps I’ll outline for you then.