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It's time for an end of 2012 clean-out to make room for 2013! 

So much has happened, so much was fit into a single year, wasn't it? What did you accomplish this year? Write all these triumphs down, be proud of them and acknowledge yourself for your successes. Write a list of everything amazing that happened, goals you achieved and things you crossed off your 'life to-do list'.

Now get a blank sheet of paper and begin writing your future successes for the coming year. 
A great way to help you think about what you want to achieve is to close your eyes and think forward to this time next year and visualise what you will be crossing off your to-do/success list. You may even find your goals may be a little different than you predicted because this year was so successful, you may need to find some much bigger goals to go after. Good!

Get ready for a new year with new possibilities. 

Focus and write down as many goals as you would like to achieve in one year. Keep writing until everything is down on paper, no matter how big or seemingly unrealistic at the moment. Your unconscious mind will absorb your wishes and get to work. Just like when you hear a new song you love and then find out all about it, who wrote it, who sings it etc. and suddenly you hear it everywhere, in shops, at the airport, on TV, in the gym. Because you were so focused on it, your unconscious mind sought it out for you when otherwise you wouldn't have noticed the song playing at all. That's how your unconscious mind works. This is why when you focus on negative things, or use self-depreciating talk, often times it comes true. 

The unconscious mind's rules: Your mind seeks out what it is told to and hasn't got a filter for sarcasm. Everything is true as far as the unconscious mind is concerned, so watch out! It also finds it impossible to recognise 'don't' - for example, if you say "don't drop the tray, don't drop the tray!" your mind hears, 'drop the tray' and suddenly you get very wobbly and drop it. It isn't your minds fault, it is simply responding to your orders. Another example - "Don't think of a blue car." 

When you are aware of these two rules, when using your unconscious mind, then your mind will be your best tool in seeking out what you want. Think of all the goals you want to achieve. Think of them daily. Successful people visualise their goals all the time. They even know what it will sound like when they get to their goal, what getting that goal will feel like, what they will be seeing when they get it. 

When you are crystal clear on the outcome then your goals just keep getting realised because the unconscious mind knows what it is seeking out for you.

So get a good picture of what it is you want, keep writing your list until everything is down on paper. Then type it out neatly. Print it out and put it somewhere you will see it everyday. Soon you will start noticing things you never noticed before, that are suddenly very relevant to your goals. 


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