This time – don’t make a New Year’s Resolution.  Resolutions such as ‘quit smoking,’ ‘lose weight,’ or ‘take up tennis’ don’t work.  You know this from a personal perspective.  You’ve made them, you’ve tried and you’ve failed.  Instead, construct a New Year’s Vision.

Take the next 12 months and think about all the things you’d like to achieve.  What does it look like?  Who is with you doing these things?  What does it smell like?  Perhaps it tastes like something, too.  Build up the most complete image in your mind and come back to it often.

The difference between a resolution and a vision is that a resolution doesn’t have any context.  It’s just a statement.  A vision has feeling – true emotion behind it.  In simple terms, whatever we think about we bring about.  So imagine if we didn’t just think about something coming to fruition but felt from the very core of our being with images, feelings, tastes and smells present.  Wouldn’t that be something?