2018 is here. Use this
New Year to focus your attention on how you want your life to look moving
forward. Are you going to keep telling yourself how hard it is to change your
current situation? Are you going to continue to let fear hold you back from living
your best life? Or are you ready to start a new chapter with positive change
and a positive attitude? If you answered yes, here’s how.
Below are my 10 rules
for bringing in the New Year with balance and a new outlook on life.
1. Set boundaries
As women and mothers, you often try to
please everyone and feel responsible for how others feel. Often times, this
results in taking on more than you can handle. Learning to say no provides
boundaries and reduces your chances of becoming overwhelmed and experiencing burnout.
Learning to say no provides you with the extra time you need to recharge.
2. Create Your Own Happy
Happiness has been defined as a
state of well-being where your life is meaningful and satisfying. But
everyone’s definition of happiness is different. It is an emotion that is
brought on by a number of different scenarios and experiences. Creating your
own definition of happiness, and not comparing it to others, can lead to your
success and the achievement of your goals.
3. Believe in Yourself
Believing in yourself entails thinking
positive thoughts about who you are as a person and what you can achieve.
Positive words can improve your mood, increase your self-confidence, and help
you get through a tough day. Developing a habit of feeding positive words or
statements to yourself can boost your self-confidence in the long run.
4. Create your own story
Reflect on your current situation.
Do you find that you’re telling yourself the same stories? The same excuses?
The same justifications? Every day you make choices about your personal life, career
and relationships that are within your control. You choose whether you are
going to wake up and exercise or sleep in. Whether you are going to surpass or
simply meet expectations. Whether you are going to mend or surrender
relationships. You choose if you are going to continue to define yourself based
on past experiences. You can cultivate balance by changing your story and
adopting the attitudes and choices that bring you peace.
5. Practice Gratitude
Practicing gratitude is a phenomenal
way to continuously remind you of everything that you should be thankful for. It’s
proven to lower stress, improve sleep, and boost your mood. Taking time each
day to reflect on what you are grateful for will put life’s challenges in
perspective.
6. Put selfcare first
Not taking time to take care for
yourself can easily lead to burnout. Making self-care your foremost task is
important for balanced living. Decide what your “me-time” looks like and then
pencil it in your schedule. Without this
scheduled time, you can become disconnected and irritable.
7. Live life to the fullest
It has been shown that people who
choose to live in the present and not dwell in the past lead happier lives.
Enjoying the journey means embracing your successes and accomplishments and
those of your loved ones. It means remaining optimistic. It also means taking
one day at a time, instead of stressing over the future and what you cannot
possibly foresee or have control over. It means not taking the little things
for granted.
8. Teach people how to treat you
You must be your own advocate for
maintaining a healthy mind, body and spirit. No one is going to stand up for
you, like you will. Love yourself first so you can know your worth and what you
deserve. If you want to remain healthy and balanced, you must expect others to
treat you with the respect and consideration you deserve. You must engage in
difficult conversations when others continue to take you for granted. You must
teach them how you need to be treated.
9. Give back
Being in the presence of others who
share the same mission can increase your sense of belonging as well as promote
relationships, both personal and professional, that can last a lifetime. Giving
back also gives you a sense of purpose and helps to develop a personal sense of
accomplishment.
10. Awaken spiritually
“Some people awaken spiritually without ever
coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching.
They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore”- Eckhart
Tolle
This quote demonstrates how
important being connected spiritually is to improve your quality of life.
Spiritual beliefs and practices are how you can connect to others. It helps
people to create positive feelings and a sense of inner peace.
If you are
a working mom looking for a work-life balance action plan for the New Year, my
new soon to be released book Take Back Your Life: A Working Moms Guide to
Work-Life Balance is the resource to have. To receive notification when the
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Wishing you prosperity in the New
Year!
Dr. Lisa
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