Resolve to Get Organized
Posted by Jan Wencel on Wed, Dec 30, 2009
Resolving to new habits before the start of a year is a ritual for most, and repeating a resolution year after year is the way of life for many.
So how do you go from pledging you're going to do something to actually doing it? And how do you maintain the change over time?
Robert Fritz's book, The Path of Least Resistance, describes how "the structures in some people's lives lead to oscillation...moving forward and then backward, and then forward and then backward again...their attempts to change their life may work at first, and then not work, and then work again and then not work again." He explains, "these people experience change, but it does not last."
 | He calls this the reactive-responsive orientation, an oscillating course characterized by reacting & responding to circumstances & external conditions. |
 | He also presents a radically different life orientation embodying hope for lasting change: the creative orientation, a revolving state of being characterized by each person being the predominant creative power in their life. |
One of the essential differences he describes between the orientations is something we hold true at Life Contained: change is initiated by changing the contents of your brain, not by attempting to change conditions outside yourself without also altering how you think.
Layer on another Fritz pronouncement, "what you choose to change does not depend on what you think is possible," and you've got yourself powerful concepts for durable change.
Make a decision today to change how you think about being focused in the workplace, and then start changing how you work. Resolve to revolve.
Happy New Year!