Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas to all my Christmas celebrating friends!

I want to congratulate you for reaching this day in the Count Down to 2009. Yesterday your task was one of consideration. It was to ask yourselves to explore what is truly important to you. The key to creating successful changes in your life is to identify the meaning the change has for you. Several of you may have Loose X Amount of Weight this year as the resolution you’ve chosen to make during this Count Down to Success in 2009. And, you have probably made this resolution before. The X may have varied. And, you may have had some success. And, you probably struggled. Am I right?

Let me share the mindset that I’m asking you to dig down deep for. I was given permission to share this example with you from another participant. This young woman began with the resolution to loose weight in 2009. She bravely contacted me and we explored the meaning, what was really important to her about loosing the weight. Here’s what she shared.

• I want to be respectful of the body that God has blessed me with.
• I want to teach my kids healthy eating/food habits and having good body image.
• I want to finally overcome this weight issue and move unto achieving other goals.
• I want to feel and look great.

Can you see how cutting to the core, getting to the meaning of your goal may provide a different kind of motivation than simply stating the means to get there? (The means being to loose the weight.)

As you go through your day today, consider how your family figures in to the resolution you came to on day 8. I am, correctly I think, assuming family figures in highly to your core value system. And, consider this. Nearly anything you choose to challenge yourself to, stems from your core value system. I don’t believe it a stretch that you could very likely see any goal you set will have roots in most if not all of your core values.

And let’s count this down together, “SEVEN”.

Today explore the resolution you’ve chosen for 2009 in relation to your values around family. Once you’ve done your reflecting, answer this question. How does your resolutions for 2009 relate to your core value of family? Remembering the benefit of putting your goals in writing and sharing them as well, I have this place reserved especially for you. I want you to write them down here _____. (Know that anything you write here will be kept strictly confidential.)

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