New year, new life!

[alcoholrehabcoach]

Wow! What a year!

For me, 2008 will go down as being one of the most challenging, and also one of the most rewarding years of my life. Learned a ton, made a lot of new friends, became closer to the people I love, attracted all kinds of wonderful abundance and incredible opportunities into my life...And I think most importantly, I became a better person by holding my Self to higher standards than I ever had before.


My favorite things I learned this year were:

1. If you want to get results like you have never seen before, then you must become something you have never been before.

2. More than 90% of people who set a goal fail to achieve it. But more than 70% of people who make a promise are able to keep it. What that means is, our brains have more leverage to keep a promise, then to achieve a goal.

Now, by simply making little promises to myself instead of calling them "goals", I not only relieve a lot of stress, and increases my chances of success, but I am also more careful about what I promise!

For example, earlier today I was thinking I would promise to do a whole bunch of free online webinars, exclusively for alcoholics, once a week every week for the next 12 months...but now I've decided to only commit do doing 12 free webinars, and then see where it goes from there.


So rather than making another New Year's Resolution, and rather than setting another crazy goal, I am simply going to make this promise to myself and each of you:


Starting the second week in January, I'll be doing some free online coaching for alcoholics. This will be a way for people to anonymously get some professional help on a weekly basis, totally free of charge, and without incurring any long-distance telephone charges.


I'll let you know the details as soon as it's set up. Meanwhile, what is one small promise you can make to yourself or someone else for the next little while? (Be sure to put a deadline or expiry date on your promise, so you can minimize any stress and measure how well you did!)


Have a Divine 2009!!!




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[BIG AL]

Great post mike.I am promosing to be debt free this yr,i read this to my wife(post)and she got alot out of it also

[alcoholrehabcoach]

Originally Posted by BIG AL

Great post mike.I am promosing to be debt free this yr,i read this to my wife(post)and she got alot out of it also

Great promise, Al!

Would you like some coaching to help you become debt free this year? (For you, no charge! We can do it right here in this thread!)

[BIG AL]

sure great deal

[Rockin Big Daddy]

A year from now
Where will you be a year from now? Where would you most like to be?
There is so much you've learned and experienced on your journey to this day. Imagine what you can now do with it all.

This new year is a grand opportunity, filled with promise and possibilities. Choose now the very best of those possibilities, and know that you have the power to bring them to life.

You will spend this coming year moving in one direction or another. Commit now to making that direction the one that will take you toward what you sincerely desire.

Life in each moment is influenced by your presence and participation. As this new year unfolds, continue to make that influence a positive and fulfilling one.

Consider today where you would like to be a year from now. For now is the beginning of the year in which you can truly make it happen.

[alcoholrehabcoach]

Originally Posted by BIG AL

...I am promising to be debt free this year.

Okay so the first thing we gotta do is beef up this really important promise of yours.

To begin strengthening your resolve and attracting vital resources to you that will help you keep your promise, tell me:

1. The exact date in 2009 that you are promising yourself you will be debt free on. Write it like this:

I am debt free on <fill in the date>.


2. Describe a detailed, emotionally charged image that will serve as proof that you are debt free on that particular day. For example:

On July 1st, 2009, my wife and I are standing in the kitchen, and I am kissing her with one arm around her waist, and one hand holding my balance statement high above my head!

[alcoholrehabcoach]

Too hard? Too nutty?

Here's a couple of tips:

1. If you can't say it, you can't have it.

2. You'll see it when you believe it. Not the other way around.


A few years ago, Walt Disney's grandson was walking around Disneyworld with a promoter. The promoter said "Imagine what old Walt would say if he could see this place now."

The grandson replied: "Walt saw it first."

[snugsnug]

Hey Mike I will take you up on that promise.

We are in the process of opening a Recovery Enhancement Program. We applied for and received a United Way start-up grant to do some case management.

I want to have our first 12 clients on their way to a better life.

On December 15, 2009 me and the rest of the folks involved with Ward Street Mission-Recovery Enhancement Program will be handing our clients certificates of completion.

Is this the type of promise you can help coach?
Sterling c.

[BIG AL]

No mike not too hard I welcome working with you again I think you have LOTS to offer.I am on nights at the plants for few days so i come home check mail and go to bed get up and work.give me couple days and we wll et right on it please bear with freind i need the help i have made a commit to start cutting up credit cards .i will be putting in massive amount of hours this weekend

[paulm]

Visualization is one major key to success. What is the point of dreaming if you don't see yourself in the winners circle already... you will stay devoted if you see you've already won. Just by paying those bills every month, the sacrifices will seem worth it if you know that is another rung on the ladder to achievement. (Kind of like one step at a time, reaping the rewards all the way thru)

No promises to make to myself this year, I should have between 8-10 promises at a minimum.

I have one big life changing thing going on, I need to change stuff about my life and it starts with my surroundings. Finding a social circle of people that contribute to my feeling worthy and significant... something inside says, "It starts with you". I believe it I just don't know how to get started. so the inner child is stomping his foot saying, "NO, I'm not going to"