Today you turn on the TV, sign into social media, join in a conversation at work … everyone is talking about their ideas for you to achieve your best in 2016.
Focus more. Eat healthy. Reduces stress. Lose weight and so on …
I love all of these ideas and more like them. They are worthy, awesome suggestions, smart and doable. I take them all in just like you and create New Year resolutions too.
But what I’ve discovered is their ideas lead you away from your ideas.
Their ideas emanate from their experiences, not yours. And while success does leave clues, and studying the steps of someone who inspires you is smart, it is not nearly as smart as you going within to tap into what is awesome, smart and logical for you.
Think about it. Someone recommends eating healthy to you, and because you know it makes sense, you include eating healthy as one of your New Year’s goals. It feels exciting, like you could lose weight, you could increase your energy and heck, maybe you could even look better too.
But you love fried food. You love chips and pizza and beer. You love all the homemade traditional foods your family makes … so back to unhealthy eating you go.
The problem is, you opted into eating healthy because someone else, for that matter, everyone else said it would be good for you. The suggestion came from outside of you, not from within you, not from your smartest and deepest instinctual knowing.
Quite frankly, I don’t care how esteemed the ‘thought leader’ is, how successful they may be, how well liked anyone is, no one knows better than you what you need to do in 2016.
You are your wisest teacher.
When you reconnect to you and what matters most to you, every resolution you make, every decision you commit to will flow from you, not from someone else.
It’s a seemingly very small tweak in what you are doing now, a ‘slight turn in the dial,’ but it’s the only action that will reap you the success you hope to achieve in any area of life.
In 2016, simplify. Slow down. Breathe deeply. Go within. Tap your smartest inner knowing to guide you.
Ironically, you may discover within that following one thought leader is precisely what you need to do to gain speed and headway in your life, health, career and relationships.
But your choice will flow from you, rather than a frenetic seeking and grasping.
Do you agree, that you are your wisest teacher? Are you ready to go within to create your greatest success in 2016?
Let me know in the comments below …
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