A Blog by Tim Wade

Starting your New Year's Resolutions today = 526% more success. If you start your New Year's Resolutions today, you will be 526% more likely to succeed at them. When you start your New Year's Resolutions today, rather than wait until New Year's Day, you're 526% more likely to succeed at achieving those resolutions. Because you're 5 times more likely to be committed to delivering the OUTCOME rather than just the annual intention if you start in December. Okay, here's the breakdown: 100% -- Because 1st Jan is when you're supposed to declare rather than actually do anything. That's why most resolutions are abandoned or forgotten by 17 Jan. Because the goal is to declare rather than do. And as soon as we go back to work we forget about the new and get back into the old. 200% -- Because the new you starts today, not some other day, and you want to start the new year already running, not fluffing around looking for your brand new gym shoes...

This is your best, most positive and accurate New Year forecast... Because I'm fascinated about people's desire to read a forecast of their fortunes for the new year, I thought I'd write one, an awesome one. A strologers publish calendar year or lunar new year horoscopes all over the world, but what if it contains bad news? (The one I wrote for you doesn't: it's awesome.) D uring Chinese New Year there is enormous interest in how the coming year will pan out. In Singapore for example, huge boards go up in public areas during Chinese New Year and crowds gather to read forecasts of their health, happiness, relationships and wealth prospects for the year ahead. Now while I don't believe in any of that stuff, I do know that our expectations of the future will influence our mindset and the degrees to which we take action. So our expectations of the future can often create that future. Then surely it's a good idea to lock on to a version of the new year that ...

It's a new year! And while that usually means dusting off old resolutions and spinning them around for 3 weeks, what if we took a different perspective on the commitment we'd like to make at this time of year? What if this period of reflection and optimism about the fresh start of a new year is actually the fresh start of a new life? If today is the day of your new life, and the old you is being replaced and transformed into the new you, and you're in the Transformation Shop telling the Transformation Specialist all the things that you'd like included, tweaked and removed in your upgraded version of yourself and your life... what would you ask for? There was a scene in the movie The Matrix, when Cypher is agreeing to the betrayal of the team to Agent Smith over a juicy steak dinner. It's then that he dictates how he would like to experience his new life, "And I want to be rich. Someone important. Like an actor. You can do that, right?" You can do th...