Week 2 - New Year New You.

This chapter deals with setting internal goals for the year for yourself. Taking a quality that you admire or would like to adopt or be better at and making that your target for the year.

I need to focus on a selection and then I need to write a short positive affirmation in the present tense relating to that goal.

Then I need to post in my working and household environment ( Lisa- I could learn to cross stitch it! I need a new hobby!).

Then I need to come up with three actions I take immediately to start honoring that quality and adopting it as part of my person.

I always have trouble with this and have a tendancy to wimp out and pick something that's too easy to fix. Or worse yet, one that's not even broken.

So in thinking this through I have decided that this year I am going to be focusing on surrounding myself with people who honor and support the values that are important to me. Yes, this sounds very basic I know. But all of us have people that we hold onto for sentimental reasons but you have grown apart, or people who are just plain toxic to you, but you stay because you don't want to deal with confrontation.

So this year I am either going to massage the relationship so that both people truly benefit from it or I am going to cut it loose. Of course, I will be slowly evaluating each one and asking some questions like:

• Does this person support the value set that I have?
• Are we family?
• Does the relationship make me a better person? Do I contribute that to the other person as well?
• Is the relationship something I enjoy or is it a "chore"
• Does this person represent an ideal for me?
• If any of the answers reflects in the negative, can the relationship be salvaged ?

This is going to be tough and I need to come up with my three point plan on how to accomplish this on a daily basis.

More on that later!