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Have you made any New Year’s resolutions? As Dr. Phil might ask, “And how’s that been working for you?” If you are like most people, New Year’s resolutions do not last more than a few days or weeks. Health clubs thrive on people signing up to begin a new regime after eating rich desserts over the holidays. Yet many members cease going to the club after a short time, often more exasperated than when they began, compounded by self-judgment for not following through. So if New Year’s resolutions flop for most people, how can you actually move ahead in your life and make your life better?

    The key is to understand two universal principles: First, there are no right angles in nature. People create right angles in rooms and

houses, but that was not God’s idea for nature. If you take a walk in the forest, you will see that everything grows and moves in a curve, or gradually. Take a carpenter’s square and hold it up to any plant, tree, or river, and you will find no perfect squares―only curves. Even tall straight trees move out from the earth in a small gradual slope.

    Everything changes in steps. So when you decide you are going to lose twenty pounds as soon as possible, you are trying to bypass the natural change process. If you are going to lose weight, you will do better to plan to lose one pound first, and then move on from there. You can target to lose twenty pounds, but you will not do it in one shot. No one ever has, and you will not be the first. (You

can get liposuction, but it’s far more natural to melt weight as you shift your consciousness.)

    Instead of going for your New Years’ resolution, go for New Year’s evolution. You change your life by shifting your thoughts, which usually occurs in stages. Sometimes you might have a quantum leap and everything changes overnight. Such a change is wonderful when it occurs, but it can rarely be engineered. People who try to make quantum leaps usually have to go back and build their consciousness to match the change they are trying to make. Everything comes to you not by forced action, but awakened mind. When your consciousness grows to be equivalent to your goal, the object of your intention will come to you naturally and often easily,