Set intentions not resolutions for the new year!

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Today, I wanted to talk about a few things as we're creeping into the new year. Now, I am not a huge believer in making New Year's resolutions. I try to remind myself to not get too ambitious and put too many irons in the fire. I tend to do this a lot, I bite off more than I can chew and get overwhelmed and shut down. If you're like me then you know what I'm talking about!

I really liked Anthony truck analogy about this: You have this small pen and it's got 10 sleeping dogs in it. There is plenty of room for those 10 sleeping dogs. But if they were to all wake up at the same time and start playing, suddenly there's not enough room. 

We have to like this is the same thing with our ideas. When you have too many ideas bouncing around or you're trying to keep too many balls in the air for all the things, you can't do it! You have to let some of them stay sleeping and I promise you, when you hit like six months down the road, maybe even 3 months down the road, you will have totally blown it out of the water. 

Let's look at clutter. Physical clutter takes up mental clutter. Physical clutter is going to give you a foggy brain. It's going to make you feel overwhelmed. It's going to take up a lot of your time.

So your first idea, let's take it. Let's chase. It. Let's date it. Maybe you end up finding out it's not something that you love. You gave it your whole heart, you tried it out. You got 3 months down the road and it turned out that you don't love it now. Let's wake up another dog, or let's try a new thing! Chase it wholeheartedly. 

You control your time. You get to choose what you do and do not do. You get to choose how many dogs in the pen you're going to allow to play. But let's get that first one awake and get to the point where all you have to do is just peek in at it every now and then, just to make sure all is well. Then jump into the next one.

So let's work on all of this. Let's wake up 1 dog at a time. Let's really get going where we want to go before waking up another. Let's get everything in our life manageable so that when it dominoes down, it's gonna affect other areas. So as you're setting New Year's resolutions, don't wait. You don't have to wait until January 1st. Get started now.

Don't overthink, just jump in and take action. When you jump in and take action, that's when you start to shift into a whole new person. It gets less and less scary. You're able to conquer bigger and better goals because you're taking that uncomfortable action. Then you get comfortable being uncomfortable and you can keep going. Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be. 

Take that first baby step. That one step is going to domino into something else. Simple start today where you are at with what you have.