Monday, January 04, 2016

By Barbara Pronin It’s natural to approach the New Year as if it offers a blank slate—a chance to improve yourself and your life. But while enthusiasm and good intentions are great, says performance strategist Matt Mayberry, it will take making some changes within yourself to make your intentions a reality.

Mayberry offers five ways to set yourself up for success:

• Expand your vision – Vision ignites action, and action creates results. See yourself beyond your current circumstances, living the successful year that you want to live. It’s one thing to have a vision for something that you desire, but it’s another to actually see yourself putting it into action. Everything in history started with a vision. Start creating a powerful and compelling vision for yourself. 
• Discover the power of goal-setting – Having a wish list isn’t good enough. Having a successful 2016 will require spending time setting meaningful and powerful personal goals and formulating a plan of attack on how it is all going to come together. Set goals that get you excited about waking up every day to make them happen.
• Find the person you need to become - You will have to instill new habits, learn new skills and develop a new philosophy on life in order to make 2016 unlike any other year you’ve had. After you get clear on your vision and set your goals, analyze the type of man or woman you have to become in order to make all of it come true.
• Develop your growth plan – If you don’t work hard on yourself to grow as a human being, it will be nearly impossible to live your best life and year. Becoming the best version of yourself doesn’t happen automatically. You need to understand in what ways you want to grow and then figure out how you will make it real.
• Upgrade your relationships – Nothing has the potential to affect our ability to become all that we can be more than our relationships and who we associate with on a daily basis. Make it a major priority to seek out mentors who are doing what you want to do or who can help you along the way.

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