As we are ending another year, we are assessing and taking inventory to make our life better. Our personal life and our business or work life is so critical in today’s time. We are watching what we spend and making decisions for a healthier life while still trying to maintain some type of lifestyle. We look for things, ways, strategies, and solutions that will help us reach our ultimate goal. So, here we are kicking some thoughts around in our head to make the best decision we can to make 2012 better than what 2011 should have been.
I am going to share with you some sustainable ideas to help you with what you need and where you are planning to go in 2012.
- Add meditation to your daily routine
- Learn how to breathe deeply and slowly
- Restore and use healthy methods to calm you
- Be selective who is in your space
- Try something new to expand your reach or take you to the next level
- Commit to 5 hours of exercise per week
- Minimize or cut meat from your diet
- Learn or advance a skill you need
- Cut the crap and make a decision
- Listen to others and learn from their experience
- Carve out time to read daily
- Be accountable, responsible with no regrets
- Set aside 1 weekend or 2 days a month just for you
- Turn off the phone and computer at a certain time
- Create a schedule and keep to it
- Hug your family when you see them
- Pick 1 day per month to gather and laugh with your friends
- Keep your commitments
- Walk outside at least once per week in your neighborhood
- Breathe fresh air everyday, even if it is opening a window
- Stay abreast of the news that is of interest to you
- Sleep 8 hours on the sheets that make you feel special
- Grow eco-friendly plants in your house like a spider plant or peace lily
- Drink decaffeinated tea or coffee
- Stop smoking
- Sip wine throughout your meal with water
- Play your favorite music each week
- Take a class at least 3 times per year
- Use natural body, hair, and make-up products
- Leisurely read by sunlight
- Bathe or shower by soy based candlelight
- Plant flowers outside or on a windowsill
- Partner with people who you know, like, and trust
- Run a clean business or career
- Get a mentor or hire a coach/consultant
- Designate at least 1 hour quiet time in your house each day
- Live honestly with integrity
- Visit the spa or get a massage once per month (or more if you need it and can afford to do so)
- Find ways to decrease your expenses
- Communicate clearly
- Incorporate new strategies to maximize your performance
- Implement time-saving, proactive, assertive processes
- Meet with your team to plan the new year
- Send thank you cards to your clients and staff
- Ask your staff and clients what you can do better to serve them
- Try new colors in your wardrobe
- Continue pedicures even in the winter
- Rub Shea butter on your hands and rough spots throughout the colder months
- Give an unsuspecting client, colleague, or colleague a gift to say thank you
- Book a trip to someplace you have never visited before
- Write your bucket list!
All of these things are easy to do and for those that are not disciplined, get disciplined and begin to complete everything on this list before the end of the year. I know you can do it! You have everything it takes to live a sustainable life, have a sustainable career, and run a sustainable business. Having the life you love is not hard to do. There is hard work involved, but it is not hard to do. The mere fact that it will be the way you want it is incentive and motivation enough to stay on track, keep your head in the game, and do what it takes to get what you want. Work for what you deserve to have and you will surely enjoy it that much more.
To celebrate my birthday, I will be providing special mini-ideation strategy sessions during the month of November. I can help you pick the one idea that will help you have a better 2012. Contact my assistant Ruth at assist@ldenisejackson.com to schedule an accelerated session for $49 only available for the month of November. Slots are moving fast so don’t wait!
L. Denise Jackson is the successful founder of three companies and helps businesses of all sizes monetize their ideas and use the best strategies to increase the profit of the business. She also helps new entrepreneurs launch their business profitably with unique strategies that reveal hidden opportunities to enhance or expand their full business outlook.
L. Denise Jackson, Founder
L. Denise Jackson Companies
The Ideation Expert
The Professional Green Network
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