What do you want to create for yourself in 2012?
What do you want it to mean for you? What are your hopes for it? What are your fears?
If you watch the news or read the papers, you’ll be hearing just how grim they reckon 2012 will be.
But does it really have to be like that?
Well, no.
And here’s how you can change everything.
Survive or thrive in 2012: whichever, the choice is yours
Of course, there’s a whole economic thing going on out there. But you do have choice in how you see it and indeed engage with it. And that choice starts in your mind.
It’s a choice about whether you see yourself as someone who survives next year, or someone who thrives.
(And, by the way, you’re already making a choice about this, even before you read this article. Choose to choose, or don’t choose. Either way you’ve made a choice. It just happens that one is passive and less conscious).
The choice starts with your language.
Surviving
If you’re choosing to see 2012 as a year of survival, the kind of things you’re saying – to yourself and others – is that it’s going to be a tough year, with big problems and challenges.
You’re thinking that you’ll just have to put your head down and get through it.
Things you may once have trusted to deliver for you cannot now be trusted.
Money will be tight. Opportunity scarce. Cutbacks inevitable.
You’re feeling powerless. Worried. Fearful.
“Oh, well…” you say, with resignation. “That’s just life. That’s the way things go.”
Thriving
If you’re choosing, however, to see 2012 as a year in which you’ll thrive, you’re more attuned to what you’ll get from it.
What opportunities it will bring that can enrich your life.
Whatever happens, you’re asking yourself what it means for you. What options it throws up.
You focus on what’s still okay, what’s prudent to do to keep yourself bouyant, what new avenues are opening.
You’re self-determining, hopeful, optimistic. Grateful for what you have.
“I will…” you say, with intention.
The choice starts in your mind
Everything is first of all created in your mind. And your mind is very clever. Whatever you tell it about the way life works is how it will run things for you.
If you go into next year wanting to find a man, but telling yourself you’re crap at relationships, that’s what you will constellate for yourself. So, you meet a lovely bloke with whom things seem to go well in the beginning. But you’re crap at relationships, right? So, those little arguments that pop up – those ways in which he disappoints you – these are indicators of how this most recent romance is heading for the rocks as all your other ones have. And so it ends.
If you go into next year, however, wanting to find a man, but telling yourself that you create the relationships that you want, that’s instead what you’ll do. So lovely bloke turns out to be human when he disappoints or argues with you. You’re seeing that you create your relationships, so you see these things as opportunities for conversation. Conversation that may allow you to get to know one another better. Build your shared ability to talk to one another. Deepen the relationship. So it grows.
So, if you’re an entrepreneur or business person waking up every morning telling yourself it’s a bad economy, guess what you’re creating? At least for yourself.
Wake up each day thinking that this one is going to be great for you, and that, by contrast is what you manifest. A great day.
Choosing to thrive
Even the best of us can find it difficult not to get sucked into the vortex of negativity that swarms around us these days. So what do you do if you want to thrive next year?
Well, hiring a great coach is one way to make sure that you articulate what you want and stay in action in bringing it to life for yourself.
In addition, you can create a daily ritual of setting up your world to be whatever you want it to be. Ask yourself: “How do I want my world to be for me today?” And answer that in a way that consciously states your positive intention.
Create your world as fearless, prosperous, loving, inviting, open, full of opportunity, accepting of you. Create it however you want.
The choice is yours. And whatever you begin to create in your mind is whatever you’ll begin to see coming back to you.
How do you want to create your world in 2012? Are you choosing to thrive or survive?
