OnTheBeach – Deprivation Motivation

Happy New Year to you!

May 2011 bring you love, luck, laughter, joy, success, health and wealth in all areas! I hope you are fully recovered from the over-indulgences of the festive season and ripe and ready for a New Year of possibility and fun! Perhaps you’ve decided to start the year by creating some goals? Some ‘New Year’s Resolutions’? The article today is for you if your resolutions are about deprivation and you never keep them (like I never did when I made them – in the end I made a resolution not to make any New Year’s Resolutions…that worked much better!).

This will help you to set some goals for yourself that are more fun, more in line with the beach philosophy of falling in love with your life…

- Deprivation Motivation -

Aaah, the parties are over, the food and drink consumed, the presents unwrapped, the credit card bill has arrived and the New Year’s Resolutions have been decided (and for a staggeringly high proportion of us, already broken!). Now, let me just say, if resolutions work for you then fair play to you…you can ignore this newsletter and come back next week. However, NYR’s don’t work for a lot of people. In fact, the year(s) I actually gave up smoking were those years I DIDN’T set a resolution to do so.

I don’t think I have ever kept even one of them. And I’m not alone in this. And here’s where I go into rant mode…It’s largely because they are all about deprivation. Stop smoking, drinking, eating, having fun, spending money, enjoying yourself, having a life. Bah humbug. Coming hot on the heels of the party season it is no wonder that they’re difficult to keep to! You’ve just got used to partying, having fun, enjoying yourself…and then BANG! Austerity bites.

No more fun for you. Aaaaaaaargh. Not only that, in my opinion January is the WORST month to deprive yourself. Well, in cold countries like the UK anyway. If I was going to set resolutions – I would probably want to give up junk food and get out in the fresh air every day. Trouble with that is, it’s cold. I need a layer of fat to keep me warm. I don’t want to go out in the fresh air because my face freezes off or it’s p’ing down with rain. It’s a recipe for disaster!

This does not mean that I am going to sit festering indoors eating chocolate and crisps. (appealing as that sounds!) I am just not going to try to ‘make’ myself do things I don’t want to do and deprive myself of things I enjoy. Imagine if you trained a dog that way – with insults about being a fat, lazy beggar and replacing its lovely meaty dinners with a lettuce leaf. It’d bite your backside, and rightly so!

Animal trainers know that kindness works far better than cruelty. Think about it. Are your resolutions (or goals for the year) about being good to yourself and enjoying your life or punishing yourself for being rubbish in some way? Are they what you would love to do in 2011 or what you think you should do? Are they inspiring or motivating (in a ‘gun to your head’ way)? Are you going to stick to them? Really?

If they haven’t worked for the last 10 years, why not try something new this year – ask yourself what you would really love to happen in 2011…and ENJOY the journey of achieving the things you want. (or enjoy the cream cakes that got in the way…whatever!) Have yourself a HAPPY new year – make 2011 the year you treat yourself with kindness and love, and make it more important than anything to feel good (because this works!), and watch your life change for the better.

- Something to Play With -

Throw away your New Year’s Resolutions and start a new list ‘What I’d love to do this year’. Start working on your list right away and give yourself the best chance of getting to December and saying ‘this was the best year EVER’! Want to share your thoughts on this article? Leave me a comment below. I love to hear from readers, and will respond to all comments. Or pop over to my facebook page and leave a comment there.

Love

Donna.x

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

May 2009 be your best year yet.

To help that dream come true, here is a poem by Christian D Larson “I Promise Myself”

To be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet.

To make all my friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature I meet.

To give so much time to improving myself that I have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but in great deeds.

To live in the faith that the whole world is on my side, so long as I am true to the best that is in me.

Hmm…I think I might read this to myself every morning for a reminder!

With much love

Donna.x

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