Mid-year’s resolutions

More than half a year is gone. My, how fast time flies?

A friend of mine has told me that he still could not find the time to keep his Christmas tree and decors, so he decided to leave it alone and be the first person to have them in his home for this year.

I wonder how you are doing as far as your start-of-the-year, passion-filled, sincere list of New Year’s resolutions for this year is concerned. Are you still on the track or have you fallen by the wayside?

Most New Year resolutions normally run only until the 3rd week of January. If you are not convinced, ask our friends from the fitness centers. You can hardly get a spot on their treadmills on January but by February the machines are practically empty.

What if we persuade ourselves at the start of the year, “This year I will be a winner. I will work on the winning habits I have learned from books or heck…from Francis Kong’s trainings and seminars and all it takes is 21 days to make it a permanent habit.” This will be frustrating for you because what takes a long time to be a habit cannot be unmade within 3 weeks.

I may have a better idea.

What if you treat this day of this month as the beginning of a new year again?

What if you intentionally force yourself to have a change of thinking, pursue a winning principle and then execute it or put actions into it and all 3 should be intentional?

Have a mindset change

A mindset change involves the thought that replaces an old one that says, “Oh, it will never work. I have tried it before.”

Change the thought into: “This time I will make it work and trash the thought that I will never succeed.”

Napoleon Hill was quoted as having studied 157 of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, and that every one of them had one trait in common: they KNEW they would succeed.

Embrace winning principles

Here are some winning principles that could help you go for the win;

Read books and obtain information on winners and what they did that made them successful.

Stay in the company of winners and do not be afraid of asking questions, lots of questions.

Celebrate small wins and then set goals for a higher win. In other words, level up!

When tough situations come, remember your past wins and how you were able to overcome past hurdles.

Clarify your goals. Stay fixed and focus on achieving it.

This one is crucial.

Put the principles into action

I have a constant reminder for myself as well as my audience: “We should stop trying to be successful. Instead, we should start training to be successful.

You don’t THINK you’re going to win. You don’t HOPE you’re going to win. You DECIDE you’re going to win.”

Whatever it is that you need to do, do it now. Do not put it off for tomorrow or reschedule it as New Year’s resolutions for 2016. Consider this day the start of the New Year again.

Winners never wait to win. Winners put the principles into immediate action. Winners make things happen.

Never settle for less than what you can accomplish.

And as I constantly say in my sessions, God never invented junk but it is up to you and I to make the best out of the life that has been given us.

Start treating every day as if it is the first day of the New Year.

If you think deeper, that moment you open your eyes and face the opportunities of a new day strikes a similar chord, isn’t it?

Winning and accomplishing things is never accidental, it has to be intentional, such that it becomes a lifestyle.

So Happy New Year to you even if it’s past the middle of the year. And allow me to greet you a Happy New You!

(Attend “Stand Out for Outstanding Performance” will be held on Sept. 9, 2015 at the Metro Tent inside Metro Walk along Ortigas Blvd. Be inspired and learn from speakers  Chinkee Tan, Bryan Kong and Karen Davila as they share principles on how to become great achievers. For further inquiries contact Inspire at 09158055910 or call 632-6310912 or 6310660 for details)