Holidays and contemplation

Now that the summer holidays have arrived the number of clients I see for the next few weeks is likely to drop away considerably.

The pattern is repeated each year; people go away on holiday, they get some time to reflect on how things are going in their life, they decide to make a change when they get home.

Some people will make those changes without any outside assistance, others will get on the phone and start to find out more about hypnotherapy.

If you are about to go away on holiday it's useful to take some of that time for yourself. Create a space where you can have time to reflect on the goals that have some how slipped away from you, the relationships that have become nothing more than an exchange of Christmas cards and the habits that you would like to get rid of.

It's helpful to think about the positive goals you want to achieve, the new skills you want to acquire, that instrument that you always wanted to learn.

Then when you come home; TAKE ACTION!

Thinking about your goals will achieve nothing unless YOU TAKE ACTION.

This is about YOU and what you want, not what other want you to want. There is a huge difference in those two things.

Have you tried the 21 day rule?

Sometimes we decide on doing something and then, after several days, come up with a million reasons/excuses why not to do it now or even at all. Perhaps we simply just forget why we wanted to do it so much in the first place.

If that sounds familiar, you might want to give the "21 days rule" a trial.

For the first 21 days you do exactly what you decided to do without asking questions, or thinking about the reasons why. You even remind yourself that you will be able to decide to stop doing it after a month.

But after that month you're already used to the new habit and so now that habit seems completely reasonable.

It may just help you save those New Year resolutions that slipped by.