{"id":2379,"date":"2009-01-07T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifewithhappiness.com\/?p=445"},"modified":"2018-10-02T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:36:57","slug":"happiness-and-new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/2009\/01\/happiness-and-new-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness and New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a big believer in New Year&#8217;s Resolutions.\u00a0 Most people fail at them within a few weeks.\u00a0 So then they give up&#8230; until next year.<br \/>\nBut hold on!\u00a0 Maybe there&#8217;s a better way to approach self-improvement, one goal at a time.<br \/>\nThe start of the new year, in my opinion, just one occasion for creating change.\u00a0 Think about how many new beginnings occur every year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New Year&#8217;s Day, first of the year, start of the First Quarter (in business)<\/li>\n<li>Beginning of Winter Quarter\/Winter Semester (in school)<\/li>\n<li>The first day of Spring<\/li>\n<li>Opening Day in Baseball<\/li>\n<li>Easter\/Passover<\/li>\n<li>Start of the Second Quarter<\/li>\n<li>Memorial Day (the &#8220;official&#8221; start of summer)<\/li>\n<li>Graduations<\/li>\n<li>the first day of Summer<\/li>\n<li>Start of the Third Quarter<\/li>\n<li>Start of the NFL exhibition season<\/li>\n<li>Beginning of the School year<\/li>\n<li>the first day of Autumn<\/li>\n<li>Start of the Fourth Quarter<\/li>\n<li>the beginning of the year-end holiday season<\/li>\n<li>Return from Vacation (any time of year)<\/li>\n<li>Completion of any long-term project&#8230; and the start of another<\/li>\n<li>Starting a new job<\/li>\n<li>Getting a promotion<\/li>\n<li>Starting a new task on the same job<\/li>\n<li>The start of any new month<\/li>\n<li>The start of a new week (e.g. Sunday, or Monday&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Add your own: _______________<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333399\">Little Changes, All the Time<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Every time you experience a new beginning, you have an opportunity to start over in some area of your life.\u00a0 Will you fail, sometimes?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 When you carry a perspective that things are CONTINUALLY new, however, you give yourself permission to fall down, get back up, and try again in a few days or a week, rather than giving up on yourself until next Jan 1.<br \/>\nWhen you adopt a mindset of &#8220;little changes, all the time&#8221; you can make self-improvement part of Who You Are, rather than some Big Event that is all scary and hard and &#8216;different.&#8217;<br \/>\nWhen you fail, you can look to the next &#8220;beginning&#8221; in your life to restart your efforts in earnest.<br \/>\nHaving multiple beginnings in your year also allows you to FOCUS your goals.\u00a0 Instead of having to create change in five major areas in January, pick one.\u00a0 Yes, just One.\u00a0 And let go of the rest, for now.\u00a0 Practice the one shift every day, every day, every day, until it starts to feel routine.\u00a0 Then pull up the next goal and introduce the next little change a few months later, at your next beginning point.<br \/>\nThe path to Happiness is not direct and continuous.\u00a0 The path is winding and full of twists and turns and backtracking and sideroads that lead nowhere.\u00a0 Give yourself permission to keep coming back and starting over on the path you really want to take.<br \/>\nMake a list of all the times in a year you can declare a &#8220;new beginning.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou have as many chances as you give yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a big believer in New Year&#8217;s Resolutions.\u00a0 Most people fail at them within a few weeks.\u00a0 So then they give up&#8230; until next year. 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