Three Questions for 2015 – Evolutions not Resolutions

1. What’s one area of my life that I can focus on to help me live more fully?
2. How do I want to evolve this year?
3. What’s the one thing I need to do, but it scares me?

I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions. If I make them, usually by mid-January, I’m running late again, papers are strewn across my desk, and I’m eating cookies again. You too?

I believe change, particularly change within ourselves, is most effective and lasting when it evolves, rather than the result of some dramatic shift.

As I look over the last ten years, I realize that each year seemed to focus on a particular area of life – dating and relationships, getting married, my son’s arrival and his care, selling and buying a home, transitioning my business. Each year, sometimes consciously and at other times, not so consciously, takes on a new “project.”

With each yearly project, though, I learned new strengths, abilities, and vulnerabilities about myself. This furthers my own evolution. More importantly, by doing this I experience a true sense of living life more fully.

Living life more fully.

That’s what my wish for you is in the New Year. My challenge to you on the edge of this New Year is to have you ask yourself the three questions above.

Beginning January 14 (next week look for the January issue of Tips & Guidance), I’ll be taking each question and dissecting it to help you more effectively apply the question to your life in 2015.

I wish you the very best in the New Year! As always, thanks for reading.