2010 – a year of change – no, really!

So, I know you’ve probably heard it everywhere in the last few days. I have too. What will we do differently this year?

Now, I’m not usually one for New Years resolutions, mostly because I feel like I make changes in my life when they’re necessary and it doesn’t generally correspond with a tidy date. However, waking up today on the 2nd of January and realizing there’s something I desperately want to accomplish gave me the idea of using the new year to actually further a plan for change this year. A plan to tackle one big, nasty, persistent problem in my life that I have just not handled effectively yet. Today I thought, “What if I could wake up a year from now and be able to say that for 364 days I had done this thing well?” Wow, I really liked that idea!  I needed a strategy for making change that was based on me, my patterns and my ‘operating system.’ And, for once, I liked the idea of attaching a number to it.

So, here’s to day 1 – January 2nd, 2010! What will inspire you to make changes this year? How well do you know yourself and use that knowledge to choose change strategies that will work for YOU? How much more effective can we be when we use our knowledge about ourselves to tailor our plans and when we’re not afraid to do things in a way that we know feels right to us? We’ll see how it goes for me. I’ll report back in a year, give or take a day…