TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE!: TABULA RASA

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

TABULA RASA - 2012

It’s my first blog of the New Year and 2012 has come in with a bang. Start this year off with a Tabula Rasa (Latin) for Blank Slate or Clean Slate depending on the translation. All the things that happened in 2011 are gone and we have a new year to thrive, to love, to travel and to be the best people we can be. Don’t take this time lightly it is a gift. Tomorrow is not promised to us.

I have put some goals and energy into the Universe for myself like actively working on weight loss and re-enrolling in school to finally obtain a Masters degree. Anything that you have found yourself putting off for years, months or even decades can be achieved. At the bare minimum you can start. I mean not just in your head, but write it down and really think about what your life would be like if you completed this goal and write down the steps that will take you there.

One of my favorite sayings back in the early 90’s was, “Think It, Believe It, and Achieve It”. I had no idea then what those words really meant or how significant they would be in my life one day. You see, everything we do starts with a thought some thoughts get us to new jobs and help us start businesses. Other thoughts get us DUI’s, fired, or cause unnecessary suffering. It is important to have the kind of thoughts that propel us to be the very best US that we can be.

I have read and continue to read “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill. This book is the epitome of believing something so strongly that it changes how we do things, it changes how we live and it changes our level of successes. When I first saw the title many years ago I thought how does someone “THINK” and grow rich. I later discovered that it is the mindset in which we believe that we can accomplish a certain task and it is the repetition of saying and believing that makes it real and later causes it to come true.

Let’s side step a bit back to your 2012 goals. It is never too late to start working on your dreams. Write down the top 10 things that you would love to do in the year 2012. Rate them at their level of importance to you 1 – 10. Now write down how you will achieve these things, be specific. An Example is losing 10 pounds. That’s great and all but how? Are you going to walk a mile 3 x a week? Are you taking an aerobics class at the gym? Are you limiting your calories to 1500 a day? Make sure your goals give you a road map to achieve them. It’s one thing to say I am going to do something it is another to put in place a plan of how that is going to happen.