10 PRIORITIES TO LIVE BY IN 2012

#1 - Set Your Goals
Buy yourself a copy of “Goals” by Brian Tracy and learn to define your priorities and what you want to achieve in life. You may be surprised that you are spending your energy chasing things that are not what you really want to achieve. You may be sabotaging the things that are important to you. One technique that Brian Tracy suggests doing is writing out your top 10 goals on a 5x3 piece of card, do this action daily for 30 days without looking at your previous day's card. By the end of the 30 days if your goals have settled down then you will find you have probably got a better idea of what is important to you.

#2 – Change your Mindset
By changing your mindset you can achieve so much more, moving yourself from limitation to possibility. This is generally hard for people to accept; namely that there are far more limitations in your mind than outside of you. These self limiting beliefs mean that people choose not to take action as they have convinced themselves it will not work for them or they cannot do it. Rather than thinking about the reasons why you can't do something, think of all the HOW you can get around your limitations and do what is possible. Remember, if you think you can or think you cannot, you are correct.

#3 - Stop Blaming Others
I know a number of people that spend much of their life blaming others for the situation that they find themselves at any point in time. In some way this is linked to the limitations issue described above. This is a very corrosive state of mind to be in, by constantly blaming others for things that happen to us is defeatist. It is to say that we are victims of things around us, and have a lack of control. Be accepting of others, and instead of blaming others of where you find yourself or what has happened or is happening to you, it is better to ask yourself what the best thing you can do now to be in a better place. You see now here's the thing, it has to be stated in the positive as well. It is believed that our unconscious mind acts far better in this frame of mind.
By the way, I do no endorse the happy clappy positive mental attitude movement, however in general there is still something to be drawn from this. It is generally better to be positive than negative in state of mind, and by no longer looking to apportion blame you are less likely to slip into an unhelpful negative state.
to be continued...
By Dr Tim McClure