Well, it's not even mid-January, so there's still time to hit the re-set button. Here are a few suggestions to help you enhance your life and work satisfaction for the remainder of 2012.
Manage the Anxiety and Fear of Change. Fear is a chronic emotion that can paralyze you into never moving forward in your life. Recognize that it is a learned emotion and that you can re-educate yourself to deal with it.
Fear will never go away completely. As long as you are growing and changing, you will have to confront it. To reduce fear, you need to face it and do it (whatever needs doing) anyway. "Just Doing It" improves self-esteem. Everyone experiences a feeling of fear when they are on unfamiliar ground. Finally, remember that psychologists say that more that 90% of what we fear never happens!
It's Not What You Are, It's What You Do. To achieve your goals in 2012, you have to recognize that successful people reach their goals mostly because of what they do.
Create a vision of what you really want to achieve and one that is really worth working for. Be very specific. Acknowledge that you need to act. Make your goal a change that you must achieve and one that will not let self-doubt or procrastination creep in. So "seize the day" and decide when you will take each action in advance. Planning will increase your chance of success.
Get Support. Share your feelings and your goals with close friends and work colleagues. Choose wisely - friends who are supportive - those who are positive in their own lives and don't gossip. At work, choose those who share with you a passion for what they do and for achievement.
At the end of every day, find at least one positive thing to say about your day. Even if the best you can say is, "It's over!" There will be days like that, even for the super star performers. And don't forget, you get to try again tomorrow.
