Resolutions for 2011- Think Big

Hey Gwen -- that's a really nice list... er, GRATE list; thank you for providing examples from yourself, I think that really helps people to see the application.  I know last year I did processing about what i wanted and drew it out a bit and then put it in my dayplanner where I saw it, so that might be a suggestion from me for others in terms of where to see it regularly.  (I end up sitting with my planner in my purse a lot and turn to reading things in there when I have spare time AND naturally utilize it as a daily planner, in theory at least.) 

Seeings as it's my job to oversee all the content development on Lumigrate, so keep up on every new piece that gets added, I really LOVED that without my asking you and the spirituality writer, Beth Patterson, both graced our forums area with information that can assist the Lumigrate followers from your very different perspectives, which is so very multidimensional and powerful.  I also had taken the information from Deirdre Rawlings' new years e-newsletter and posted it underneath that, as I found it to be really good material for 'this time of the year'. 

I'm going to put links below so people can refer from here to the other pieces and vice versa to this one.  

I look forward to many people finding a GRATE deal of help from Lumigrate and our generous contributors and sponsors, such as yourself!  ~~ Mardy

Link for other pieces about New Years on Lumigrate from 2011 New Years: www.lumigrate.com/forum/robust-universe-includes-botched-and-bungled-looks-2011-and-new-year

I wanted to tack something in here which I read in Psychology Today magazine.  (I'm not giving a link because my popup blocker gave me a really big warning about their website, but it's a wonderful magazine and you might have better luck if you try the website).  This is in the January/February 2011 issue, a piece on page 48 written by Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD, a Psychology Today blogger, social psychologist and author of Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals. 

I thought of adding it here, as Gwen's whole way of coaching is to be very simplified.  And I'm using this piece as something to refer people to that I am consulting with related to the occupation of health care and making modifications to their daily living in order to reach their end goals. 

Rather than simply saying "I will do X (or not do X)", you set it up as "If X happens, then I'll do Y".  She uses the example of "Eat Less", breaking that down to having strategies for what you will do in your situations related to maintaining that.  "When the dessert menu comes, I'll not look, I'll have coffee" was the example given.  So this might be a book for people to look into, though I would like to see people purchasing a book about psychological interventions that might integrate information a bit about what you eat and drink that's beyond having coffee for desert as a healthy option. 

In the Occupational Therapy forum, I've put the Ideal Daily Game Plan for people to read and print if they want (or you can do it from the instructions on any piece of paper).  I use an example there of a former patient of mine who wanted to start drinking pomegranite juice and how we worked to incorporate that, trying to replace his afternoon soda with it, but having it be an additional drink during the day instead, as he ultimately didn't chose to give up the soda despite understanding it's health impacts.  I didn't word it as this straightfoward 'If/Then" in what I wrote up, but thinking back on it, that is the strategy I have used with patients in the past -- get your overall goals and intentions and then on a short-term basis keep realizing that every day you are making a choice to "do, or do not", as Yoda would say.  (He completes that statement with ... there IS NO 'try'.  ~~ Mardy