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Your New Year’s Reinvention

By Sue Frederick, author of Dancing at Your Desk

 

January is the time to launch your reinvention for a happier life and career. If you want 2006 to be the best year of your life, commit to these five simple steps:

1. Feel better right now:

Quit worrying about why things are the way they are, or why YOU are the way you are. Stop worrying about money, love, health, the world economy, war and pollution. Your worries only produce negative energy which makes life worse for everyone.

To make your life (or anyone else’s) better, first change your thoughts, beliefs and feelings. This inner shift is essential for changing your outer world of circumstances, opportunities, and relationships.

How do you make this inner shift when you’re having a bad day? Just do one small thing that makes you feel better. This can be a simple thing like exercise, meditation or laughter.

When you feel better, your energy rises to the top of your energy continuum where you can manifest dreams, attract new opportunities, tap into your inspiration, and find new solutions. It’s really pretty simple: Get happy in spite of your circumstances, and your circumstances improve.

Remember, we’re composed of energy – actually waves of light, say the quantum physicists. Our energy frequency can be raised or lowered according to our thoughts, feelings and beliefs.

This personal energy continuum (that everyone has) is negative at the bottom and positive at the top. Positive energy includes our brilliance, goodness, divinity, inspiration, love and joy. Negative energy includes our anger, depression, sadness, guilt, pessimism and separateness.

Simply check in with yourself each day and ask, “Where am I on my continuum right now?” After you’re clear on that, observe how your day goes. Notice how your energy affects your day and your life. You’ll quickly realize how powerful you are; that you’re not a victim to your circumstances.

2. Dream from morning till night:

Spend lots of time each day dreaming of the life (and career) you truly want. Ask yourself, “What is my ridiculously wonderful dream life?”

When the dream makes you giggle, you’ve got it right.

Dreaming raises our energy and shifts our focus to the big picture of life. Only from that enlarged view can we begin to create the vortex of energy that attracts great opportunities and circumstances into our lives – whether it’s a powerful promotion, a new career, or a loving relationship.

Magic happens all the time; people launching businesses find perfect investors or partners. People who want to work for enlightened, lucrative corporations – get offered jobs at those companies. People fall in love. And many people have miraculous healings. If this magic is not happening in your life, it’s because of your limited thoughts and beliefs about what is possible for you.

Remember, nothing happens unless first a dream. The bigger the dream, the more excited you’ll be about it, and the more energy it will attract to help it come true.

3. Get a Best Buddy (who loves to laugh):

It’s time to clear out old friends who make you feel bad about yourself. This year, it’s essential to make strong connections with a friend or partner who believes in your best self. This will be your 2006 Best Buddy. This is the person you can count on to say, “I know you can do this. I see your talents. You can do whatever you put your mind to!”

If there isn’t anyone in your life like that, find, or hire, somebody to do this with you. Send out a request to be surrounded by people who see the best in you and help you bring your gifts to the world. Ask for this to happen, and it will.

Tell your new best buddy to help you redirect your thoughts in a more positive way by pointing out your negative beliefs. This is why your best buddy has to love to laugh. Without a sense of humor, this won’t be any fun. It has to be fun, or you’ll soon stop doing it.

Humor is magical, and you want more laughter in your life in 2006. You especially want more laughter in your relationships. Start with this best buddy relationship and move on from there – creating many healthy, supportive friendships in your new life.

4. Focus on Your Future:

Stop thinking about the past or about your problems. Instead ask, “What are my gifts and talents? What do I want my life to look like? What do I want to happen today?”

Each morning, say out loud:  “I’ve always had a talent for … and I’m attracting work that brings my talents to the world and provides abundantly for me.”

To be happy at work, it’s essential that you’re using your natural, innate talents all day – not just your learned job skills. Do you naturally love communicating, solving problems, and inspiring others? Do your friends and family tell you that you’re good at those things? If so, those are your natural talents, and you’re supposed to be using them everyday at work – or you’ll feel useless, bored and frustrated.

Focus on solutions to your problems rather than the problems. Tell your team at work (or your family) that anyone who comes to you with problems has to bring three possible solutions. When you find yourself worrying about money, your job, or loved ones, shift your mind to focus on what you want to happen – rather than what is happening. This step alone can transform your life.

What we focus on gets bigger. Remember, we are the observers to our world - affecting it with our observations. When you focus on a problem, you are sending it energy with your thoughts. Energy makes possibility take form. Stop focusing on what you don’t want to happen! See only what you want to happen, and the possibility, the dream, begins to take physical form.

Use EPR everyday to improve one challenging situation you find yourself in. For example, say you have a dreaded weekly staff meeting. This week, go into the meeting with the intention to improve its direction using humor, gratitude and sweetness with everyone in the room – in spite of how you feel about them or their ideas.

These three emotions are your Energetic Personal Resuscitation (EPR) tools and they will raise your vibrational frequency whenever you use them. Your strong, positive energy will then attract the circumstances you desire – whether it’s a promotion, a productive staff, or a “yes” to your new ideas.

EPR works the same way when you’re stuck in a long line at the post office, or feeling uncomfortable at a dinner party. Show up to the most intimidating situations intent upon using your gratitude, sweetness and humor to make everyone feel happier. They will. And so will you.

5. Drop something old:

This year, turn around one aspect of your negativity – such as getting your feelings hurt. From now on, you won’t be offended – no matter what happens at work or home. You’ll take in all negative feedback as information to be processed in order to become your best, most powerful self. When you feel yourself becoming offended, laugh instead. See the humor in your shortcomings.

Being offended is negative energy and a waste of time. It puts you way down on the low-end of your continuum. You need to be at the top of your game (continuum) in order to create a new life or happier career.

Drop the old grievances: Improve one important relationship this year using EPR. Right now, pick a relationship that needs improving and decide to use abundant gratitude, sweetness and humor to make it better – no matter how you feel about this person.

Why do this with difficult relationships? This positive energy shift makes your life better. Don’t weigh yourself down with negative energy towards other people. When you’re feeling angry or blameful, you’re at the low-end of your energy continuum, and nothing good will come to you there.

Clean out the negative emotions in your life, and rise up your continuum to be your most powerful self – which is who you need to be to manifest a better life and career.

Drop your old beliefs:  Identify and turn around five negative beliefs each day. A negative belief sounds like this: “Nobody makes good money doing that for a living.” Or, “I’ll never get a promotion at my job because of such and such…” Or, “Marriages don’t usually thrive when such and such happens.”

Why get rid of these negative beliefs? Your belief is creating that reality for you. Other people make good money doing their dream work for a living. Other people get promotions in spite of difficult circumstances. Other people have loving, happy marriages in spite of dire situations. If these good things aren’t happening to you, your negative beliefs are preventing it.

How do we turn these beliefs around? One thought at a time. Everyday repeat these affirmations: “When I’m at the high-end of my continuum, I attract amazing career and financial opportunities. I have always been abundantly loved.”

 Stop being pitiful and complaining about life; instead be your most powerful self and change things for the better in 2006 – one day at a time, one thought at a time.

This is what you’re here to accomplish in this lifetime. Just do it!

 

Sue Frederick is a career counselor, energy coach, author and lecturer. She is the founder of BrilliantDay Revolution Network and teaches workshops and classes at Naropa University and University of Colorado, and is the author of Dancing at Your Desk; A Metaphysical Guide to Job Happiness and BrilliantDay: 7 Solutions to Turn Your Day Around. For more information, or to sign up for Sue's classes and workshops, visit www.BrilliantWork.com, email Sue@BrilliantWork.com or call 303-939-8574.

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