There’s a lot of talk that you have heard or seen on New Year’s resolution. What’s your thoughts? Do you give any weight to such? Do you make resolutions?

As you and I know, whether you make resolutions or not, it’s not so much about making them, it’s keeping them. This is where most people have the problem – successfully keep them.

Can you successfully your resolutions? If so how?

This is the focus of this episode. I believe you can.

Recently I did an episode – TML120 – where I talk about “how to have your best year ever,” which I made reference to in this episode. In this episode I outlined the possibility of having a successful year.

As you might know if you’ve listened to some of my last couple episodes, I started the habit of journaling midway through 2015. Actually I started in August and have had mostly success as far as consistency.

On one occasion as I was reflecting on 2015, I entered my struggle with following through to the end on projects that I started. I’m not sure if you have similar problems. If you do, you feel my pain.

From this entry, these five ideas were birthed.

Here are the 5 Fresh Start Ideas To Successfully Keep Your Resolutions:

1. Follow through on what you start

2. File away new ideas

3. Don’t try to undo old behaviors

4. Calendar your plans

5. Change or modify your surroundings

Past episode links mentioned:

5 Sexy Benefits Of Journaling | Episode TML124

5 Ways To Make 2016 Your Best Year Ever | Episode TML120

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“When did the benefits of journaling become sexy? What makes it sexy?” 

You might be asking these and / or other questions when you read the headline of this post. I would too. It creates for me a curiosity that I want answered or clarified.

Let me calm some of your curiosity by asking you a question: “What makes anything or anyone sexy? Who determines what or who is sexy?”

I believe the word sexy when used as an adjective, a verb or a noun is subjective. Someone decides that they are going to make it so.

If that is true, why can’t I decide to make the benefits of journaling, sexy?

It is sexy because of some of the criteria used to determine what or who is sexy – the look, the touch, the emotion or the smell.

I can say the emotion(s) or the feeling(s) generated from writing a journal entry is similar to that of what we come to expect from the context in which the word is used. The look of a person. The moves of a person. The aroma of perfume. The sensual look of a woman (you might add man).

Having developed the habit of journaling over the past several months after much resistance as I share in this episode, I have come to realize there are incredible benefits that make it sexy for me.

Here are the Five Sexy benefits Of Journaling I covered in this episode.

1. Having something to reference

2. Clarity

3. New idea generation or formation

4. Create good habits and discipline

5. Serves as a stress reliever.

5 Tips On How To begin A Sexy Journaling Journey

1. Do it daily i.e. journaling (just in case you were wondering LOL)

2. Begin anywhere, and forget spelling and punctuation.

3. Write quickly, as this frees your brain to successful journaling

4. If it helps, pick a theme for the day, week or month

5. The most important rule of all is that there are no rules.

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Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less ~ Greg McKeown

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Have you ever voluntarily taken the time to reflect on Christmas? If you did what was that like? Do you recall? Is it something you are doing right now?

Maybe you are reflecting on Christmas not because you want to but out of necessity, grief or some other reason outside your control. What is that like for you?

I know for me, as I reflect on Christmas, I do so with mixed emotions. Christmas is not the same for our immediate family as it has been in past years. A lot have changed.

Maybe that is true for you as well.

In this episode, I share with you my journey as I reflect on Christmas. I talk about my adult son who is in Los Angeles and how it will be the first time that he won’t be with us for Christmas. 

You will hear me share what’s that like for me. I can say that it has impacted me in an emotional way. I also talk about others maybe like yourself, who are also reflecting on Christmas through other lenses such as grief, divorce, health issues, etc.

One thing that I must say is that I concluded with the fact that what helps me and keeps me anchored as I reflect on Christmas is my relationship with Jesus.

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You could be on the verge of a burnout and not know it. The signs might be staring right at you and you’re either overlooking it or misdiagnosing it.

So many professionals experience burnout at midlife because of the repetitive nature of their work, the stress of it or the demands of it.

However, one of the most un-diagnosed cause is that of not living out their purpose or passion.

Even though I’ve never experienced burnout, I can say I’ve had symptoms that left un-checked, could easily lead to such. “Un-checking” these symptoms is not as easy as it sounds. It requires some definitive action steps.

These action steps are some of the things that were discussed in this episode.

Here are the five lessons I covered in this episode.

In this episode, our guest – Dr. Clarke Gaither – discussed some of the warning signs of burnout but also, how symptoms of burnout could lead to some positive changes.

Dr. Gaither aka Dr. Burnout, talked about his own burnout as well as his struggle with alcohol. .

About Dr. Clark Gaither aka Dr. Burnout:

Dr. Clark Gaither knows first hand both the pain and the value of struggle. During his lifetime and 26 year career as a family physician he has faced and overcome many difficult challenges – fear of public speaking, alcoholism, professional burnout, and devastating personal tragedies.

Not only has he learned to overcome, he has learned to embrace the glorious magnificence of choice and change.

Dr. Clarke has:

Authored a Best Selling book in 2015, POWERFUL WORDS, on inspired communication through emotional connections.

Overcame a moribund fear of speaking, even in private, to become the NC state Serious Speech Champion.

Battled alcoholism while in residency training in 1989 but went on to become the NC Family Physician of the Year in 2002.

Became an expert in the identification, treatment, and prevention of job related burnout after personally experiencing job burnout.

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Louder Than Words: Harness The Power Of Your Authentic Voice ~ Todd Henry

The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results  ~ Gary Keller

Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less ~ Greg McKeown

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“You would have to be under a rock if you haven’t yet heard about what happened with Steve Harvey and Miss Universe Pageant.”

That might be the sentiment of some, but if you are like me, I wouldn’t have found out unless someone informed me.

My daughter had gone away for a couple of days and as she walked into the house and after greeting us, she said: “Did you guys hear about Steve Harvey and Miss Universe Pageant?” She was talking to her mom and myself.

I hadn’t heard. I very rarely watch Television and if I was going to watch, it would not be the Miss Universe Pageant. It’s not that I have anything against the show, it’s just that it doesn’t interest me. I like to hear the winner especially if it is an “underdog.”

Anyway, I looked on Facebook and saw what was trending. Of course it was the blunder of Steve Harvey when announcing the winner of the show.

As I watched the replay of that particular segment, I came away with five lessons that I believe we all can learn from this.

Here are the five lessons I covered in this episode.

In this episode, I share 5 Lessons From Steve Harvey as he made a huge mistake.

Here are the 5 Lessons I talked about in this episode:

1. The same people who love you today will be the same ones calling for your head tomorrow

2. When you mess-up fess-up. Take ownership for your mistakes. Don’t try to blame anyone else

3. Request forgiveness

4. No one is above screwing things up, even their lives. We all make mistakes both big ones and little ones

5. Move on. Live is more than one event

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The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results  ~ Gary Keller

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