Begin With The End in Mind!
- Marcia S. McNeill
- Dec 31, 2017
- 4 min read
December 2017 all month long my motto has been, "How you end the year is how you begin the year". You should not wait until the new year to change your life. What you do now in the present is what is going to beneficially shape your future. The change that one seeks has to begin sooner than later. The change for the new year should start the first of the previous or current year. Begin with the end in mind.
Focus on the good stuff. Focus on the positive stuff. Focus on your wants ahead of time. Set plausible life changing, life affirming goals often to get you to the best life that you seek. Write your goals down. Post your goals around your home and your work. Create a vision board and focus daily on the things you want in your life through consistent visualization. How you end the year is how you begin.
Many people around the end of the year become weary about their accomplishments the months prior. The worry builds when people look back on the year and contemplate all that has been or has not been accomplished. You mustn't lose sight of the goals you have placed in your life. Celebrate the small wins. Celebrate the small successes. Always celebrate yourself. If you take the time to set small goals that will lead you to your big goal, you will achieve your bigger goal. Setting smaller goals keeps you on track for that bigger goal to be accomplished.
In previous years, I would be the one very sad with the end of the year coming to a close. I would find myself looking back and feeling as though I didn't accomplish a thing. What I failed to realize was that I wasn't thankful for what I had been doing that whole year. I was more focused on all the things I wanted and didn't have yet and distracted by my lack of what I didn't have in my relationships as well.
When 2017 came, I promised myself that my life would have to change for the better. I had to love myself more. I had to be appreciative of all the things that I already had in life and all the things I had already accomplished in life. You have to be faithfully thankful for your current life and all that you presently have in order to be blessed with more things to be thankful for.
Consistency was a major key to my success that I was missing. I knew what I wanted to do in life but I didn't know how to stay focused and stay motivated. I knew that what my life truly needed was for me to be consistent in my prayers and meditation of my life. In my search for consistent happiness I had to get on the path of a consistent positive mindset. I could not allow any of my previous negative thoughts to shadow my progress towards getting my life to be on the consistent wavelength of success. How I began my year was going to be how I ended my year and in return, how I ended my year was going to be a complete reflection of how I would begin the following years to come. The time for change was now.
Once the end of this year was coming to a close, when I had the negative thought of sadness fill my mind that maybe I didn't accomplish all my years goals in time, I had to shake those negative thoughts loose from my mind and affirm that I had actually had a very productively prosperous and successful year. I accomplished a lot of my goals. I even published two books in the process and became a talented spoken word artist. I had my very first and own poetry showcase that was a major success as well. Just the year prior I decided that I didn't want to be a spoken word artist, but now look at me. I have also eliminated my fear of performing and being in front of people, my fear of failing and or succeeding as well as my overall anxiety with worrying that things won't work out. I learned to retain my poetry with a special technique for memorization. I am truly in my element and this year was absolutely one of my best years. My 2017 began with publishing my first erotica novel and today it ends with the publishing of my third poetry book on this day December 31st.
If I can do it, believe me that you can do it also. It all starts and ends with a positive mindset, consistency, focus, ambition, determination, purpose and passion. You too can begin and end a year on the same positive note. You too can be consistently happy and positive and prosperous. Always begin each and every goal with the true end in mind. You have to know and be completely aware of what you desire your end to look like in order to have a successful start.
Remember to remember and be aware. Stay focused, blessed and highly motivated!
Words By Marcia
Marcia S. McNeill
Inspire. Uplift. Motivate.
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