Every year, the new year arrives with the sound of a church bell and the noise of illegal fireworks terrorising our innocent animals. And it is normally in the new year that we make the new plans. Everyday is a new year to the wise man. Tommorrow is another day we say. Plenty of time...

Time, however is ticking on relentlessly regardless of our plans, resolutions or maybe you decided to doing nothing different, as usual this year.

So what do you think this year has got in store for you?

Regardless of your list, was it also on your list last year?

Did you succeed in achieving your goals?

Or did you actually move backwards and lost some/everything?

If not, I bet you are silently blaming yourself, or even worse you are blaming everything and everyone around you.

Your "willpower" was just not strong enough to make the grade. And you are making life as hard as possible for yourself during this period of 'failure' and depression. Life is just not fair?

The alternative of course is that your goals were vague, meaning it was not what your really wanted out of life...

or maybe you tried really hard, but in vain and these words are milltreading through your brain "Why can't anything go right for me. Why does everything I try go so wrong? When did I become such a worthless loser?"

Who knows, maybe you achieve nothing because you are just directionless through habit or burn-out and therefor you make no more plans, you just float along aimlessly.

STOP!

It has nothing to do with willpower. It has everything to do by who we believe we are.

Our life's are controlled by an internal governor or thermostat,  more commonly known as the self image. And this self image was created one day at a time from birth. More often than not is was firmly fixed by traumatic and bad experiences. By insensitive parents, superiors or peers who said things (they did not really mean) but we accepted it as truths about ourselves.

 The same mechanism that is now guaranteeing your failure can also guarantee that you achieve what you want easy..... when you stop pushing and fighting and activate your AUTOMATIC success mechanism!

In the late forties and fifties a cosmetic (plastic) surgeon named Dr Maxwell Maltz made a breakthrough discovery of doing his work fixing people's scars and ugly parts of their outward appearance.

Dr Maltz discovered that some patients quickly became dynamic and happy people, once their self-esteem and self-confidence mirrored their new physical appearance.

Others however continued to be unhappy  and non-achievers despite their attractive physical looks. This led to the discovery that many people see themselves inaccurately; their perceptions about themselves is totally out of focus because the lenses of the mind is out of focus (very much in the same way the hubble telescope could not operate with the faulty lense).

These people lived totally unhappy and un-fulfilled because of erroneous beliefs embedded in their subconscious mind.

After councelling thousands of patients and decades of research Dr Maltz discovered something significant...

The human mind functions much like a goal seeking device similar to a guided missile on auto-pilot!

He called this Psycho Cybernetics.
This "automatic goal seeking device" is the part of the mind that will draw to you whatever you need to accomplish - no matter how challenged you are.

Regardless if you are aware of it or not, right now you are programming it for either success or failure, depending on your self image.

You are in charge of your reality every second that ticks by from now on after reading this sentence, and you have what you have because of the reality you created for yourself through your self-image.

Dr Matlz discovered that our self-image controls:
* What we achieve, and don't achieve.
* Where we go and live.
* Our relationships with friends and more intimate relationships.
* How the relationships turn out.
* What we do for a living.
* How much money we make.
* What position we will achieve in life.
* How well we do at sports or academically in school.
* The state of our health.
* Our personal appearance - how we dress.

He discovered that we cannot ever seperate what we are and what we become. If your internal self-image tells you that:

* You are a fat person, then you will be that overweight person.
* If you are a R10,000 per month person then you will do your utmost to sabotage your income if it by chance it is going to be more than R10,000.
*  If your family is not good at maths then you will also not be good at maths.
* You never stick to an exercise program..... and so on.

Conclusion: What Dr Maltz found was that you will NEVER be different from what your self-image says you are. 

If you change your self-image to "think" of yourself as the person you want to be... you will AUTOMATICALLY become that new person!