Wording Your New Year’s Resolutions Right

If, like me, you take the time out to make a set of resolutions, or even just one or two, it’s of vital importance that you focus on the intent and the ‘feel’ of the words you use.  Though it sounds silly, using the wrong words may cause your perfectly good intentions to fail at the first post, because the language isn’t positive enough.

Setting yourself up to succeed

Positive mindsets aren’t just about harnessing and manifestation – they have a simple underlying key to their use and application – if you go into something believing you will succeed, you’re already one step ahead of where you’d be if you are preparing to fail.  Failure is 90% mindset and 10% circumstances in most cases – while there are some things you can’t control, if you’re at least in a position to give your best, you KNOW if something doesn’t work, that you’ve done all you can, and it was out of your control.  Placing yourself in control is as simple as creating a ruleset within the language you use to describe your ultimate goal for the year.  Do that and you’ll find that you’re in the best position to create the best with your circumstances.

Positive mindsets aren’t about ignoring the possibility of failure – instead, they are about investing enough to give yourself the chance to find out if you WILL fail, instead of believing that you will automatically.

Success is more than just words – it’s attainable

Your success language should be part of your core corpus – in other words, you should use language that you would always, naturally, use.  So choose words that you’re confortable using, because it will feed into your ‘can do’ mindset.  That can do mindset will allow you to be your best always, which in turn, will allow you to achieve your goals with less confidence hitches.

Setting your words as markers for success

Whether you consider your goals a lighthouse, or a map, a marker on a longer path, or more practical, points to achieve before you reach *your goal*, your language, and the words within it should reflect the feelings within you – so finding your most positive reflections may take longer than January 1st, but if you can, sit down with your goals and edit them like you are submitting them for publication – and the publication’s guidelines insist that you use words that have positive or strong connotations only.  And once you’ve polished them, print them and put them on your wall!