Getting a FOCUS for 2017, part 2

Now that you have your ONE WORD or PHRASE, it is time to begin to cultivate new habits with the one word/phrase focus for the year, here are some keys to staying strong.  Whatever you focus on, grows. Don’t focus on what you don’t want. When you put energy into thinking about an unwanted habit (thinking about it, complaining about it, worrying about it, or talking about it) you will get precisely that unwanted thing.  Change your FOCUS. Keep your eyes/thoughts/words on that which you are wanting to develop. 
 
To replace the unwanted habit (thought pattern/etc) with another habit that you DO want.
1. Show up ~ Get started.  Don’t think about how you might mess up or "fail".
2. Be consistent~ BE STEADY

• A body at rest tends to stay at rest & a body in motion tends to remain in motion.  Once you are in motion it’s easy to keep on keeping on.  Once you stop, it’s hard to start up again
• Remember the parable about the tortoise & the hare~ the tortoise won the race because he was STEADY, he didn’t stop. He kept going, even though he was slow.  Slow is not the winning reason, but his steadiness was.

3. Have a positive outlook ~ Be positive about what you are doing. Speak the end result of what you desire. 
4. Committed for the long haul-

• Plant. Cultivate. Harvest .There are spiritual & natural laws that mirror one another.  You will only harvest what you plant & there is a period of a growing season that must do its job before you can harvest.
• Little changes day by day don’t look like anything, but one day after several months you look back to see major changes taking place.
• Don’t be caught up in looking for “success” right now. Celebrate the little "successes" along the way.

5. Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith- SEE the end result. See with eyes of faith what you are believing to take place during this year.  Have a vision (model) so you “see” it before it is made manifest
6. Be willing to pay a price- It’s worth the investment and the sacrifice to have the “mission” accomplished.

• Do the things you are committed to doing, even when no one is looking and even when it is really hard.  Do not give up!