Forget New Year’s Resolutions
Imagine & Review Your 2009 New Year
by Suzan J. Cotellesse, LPC, LMFT appearance, relationships, health, home, finances,
leisure time, spirituality, sexuality, social life,
A
t the beginning of each new year, we are everything!
encouraged and sometimes bullied into
thinking about all the changes we want 4. Limit yourself only by what you can answer
or should make in our lives. Here is an alter- affirmatively to the question, “If I had it
native to traditional forward New Year now, would I take it?” Make sure your
Resolutions that we normally forget or give up answer is yes!
on when we make little or no progress. Use
your imagination to simply set intention for your 5. Continue writing until your review feels fin-
life this New 2009 Year. On or around January 1, ished and is something to which you can say
2009, take some quiet time alone to write a review a certain and enthusiastic, “YES!”
of this upcoming 2009 year as though it had already
passed. Pretend that it is already January 1, 2010 and that you are 6. Seal your review in an envelope and place it where you
writing from the perspective of looking back over the past year— will see it occasionally during the year, but do not open it
2009. until next year.
Include in your review what happened during the year
2009, how you experienced yourself, your relationships, your On around January 1, 2010 open your envelope and read
world, and what your life looks, sounds and feels like now on your review. You may be surprised at how closely your year
January 1, 2010. will have unfolded to reflect what you wrote. Give it a try.
What do you have to lose? Enjoy!
1. Use present and/or past tense verbs as you describe your
year 2009: “I am/was . . .” “We have/had . . .” “They Suzan J. Cotellesse, LPC, LMFT is a psychotherapist, supervisor,
have/had . . .” coach and consultant at Spectrum Center in Houston, Texas.
She will be teaching Living Your Creative Power, the new ver-
2. Include descriptions of how you look, feel, think, behave, sion of her popular class on creating results. Both lunch and
respond to people, and how people respond to you. evening classes will begin Tuesday, January 27 and end
February 23. Contact her at 713-621-0234 or suzanjc@
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friends, co-workers, work, career, communication skills,
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