THOSE NEW YEAR EVOLUTIONS AND MORE! - by John La Valle

John La Valle explores the nature of the New Year's resolution...

THE WORD *RESOLUTION* itself is a nominalization, a verb formed into a noun. It comes from the word "resolve", which means to solve, again!! And so many people get into a pattern of re-solving old problems and then not re-solving them because they then turn the process into an event, a static event. How about EVOLUTIONS?!! Evolving continuously, doing new things, get a new look, a new walk, a new talk, a new anything!!

INSTEAD OF MAKING "Resolutions", how about setting up new directions in which you want to be going this coming year, both personally and professionally? Take some goals, activities, behaviors that you want to be doing, and see yourself doing those in your future, just starting in the next few moments. If you're going to put those pictures into your future, be sure they're of behaviors - YOURS - that's you doing them, dissociate so you can see yourself doing them, then associate so you'll know what you'll be seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, tasting. Then dissociate, see yourself doing them!! It's in your language, too.

REMEMBER, IT'S ONE THING to have goals that are outside of yourself, like that red *Testosterosa*, but without the behaviors, you may not know how to go about getting one, or even earning the money to get one. Remember to keep YOUR goals behavior-driven. That material thing is just the outcome of the outcome, it's the reward for doing certain behaviors!!

Last month I wrote about Switching Those Directions - Sequencing

A long time friend and student sent me something most recently. For those of you who have studied with me and remember the strategy exercises we have done, this is another example of this.

While I'm not advocating AARP, the project is worth seeing on YouTube, it is only a 1 minute, 44 second video. Be sure you read as well as listen, both forward and backward.

I believe the video was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old and won 2nd place.

The contest was titled "u @ 50" by AARP.

So simple and yet so brilliant, as most things are. Take a minute and watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA
 

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John La Valle is the President of the Society of NLP. A highly respected trainer in business and therapeutic environments, John La Valle is famed for his wit and dynamism in all training environments. To read John's newsletter, visit his website at: www.nlp-newsletter.com/articles