There are millions of people worldwide who vow to undertake in earnest their New Year’s resolutions on January 1st start date to change or transform themselves. In the meantime they engage the last moments of the year in a frenzied bacchanal of culinary decadence, sloth and overall bad habits. When you ride such a huge energy surge you often get overwhelmed and swamped once you land hard on the shores of the New Year. Get ahead of this surge and begin your transformation now so that you’re further shore and already well inland achieving your goals well before the tsunami energy wave hits.

You do this because it’s a powerful tool for everything else going forward. Heeding to a future deadline for something that can be accomplished immediately is nothing more than an excuse. Procrastination is a self-generating, insidious weed that spurts doubt, change of plans, and change of heart. It’s a dream destroyer, a precursor for failure that convinces you that your dreams are neither important nor worth the effort. Before you know it, that opportunity passed you by. It never happened. Trying to re-start a deferred dream when you initially had the will and opportunity is like climbing an ever steeper hill slicked with regret while you desperately try to make up for lost time.

This ‘do it now’ approach instills a second nature immediacy to seize the moment so that there’s no daylight between the idea, the intent and action. Just imagine yourself not far into the future, perhaps 1-3 years, by taking bold action and transforming yourself into the person you desire. Those discernible positive changes, no matter how small, even in those first few months of effort, provides the critical initial momentum towards your goals. Once you get the ball rolling you’ll experience with wonder the fascinating way in which things magically fall into place in your favor and how unexpected helpful resources manifest apparently from nowhere.

There are always hiccups for any new venture or transformation. The more radical the transformation the bumpier the road. Part of these challenges are natural occurrences whenever there’s a change of any kind. The other part is your subconscious which is so wedded to your habits and rituals that its roots must be completely ripped out. Additionally, it’s a test to find out whether you are really committed to this transformation. Sometimes the greatest challenge is not lifting a load off your chest, rather turning the page of your life.

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