You have permission to:
Keep smoking
Keep drinking
Keep the bulge
Keep watching 4 hours of TV a day
Keep running up your debt
Don’t increase your exercise
Stay unorganized
Keep eating like crap
In fact, keep doing whatever the hell it is you shouldn’t be
doing.
Yes, you heard right.
Don’t waste even one minute of your time planning out how you are going
to rid yourself of such unwanted vices.
Because, trust me, whatever bad habits have cemented themselves as part
of your regular life, a New Year’s Resolution is going to do exactly
poo-diddley-squat toward ridding you of them. What behaviors did you vow last year on December 31, 2009 to
discontinue? How about this year?
It’s only been five days. Have you been successful? See what I mean.
So, instead of engaging in what for most people is an
exercise in complete futility, this year we’re going to change our approach to
this New Year’s Resolution thing.
This year, we’re going to think big instead of bad. We’re going to focus on what we want in
our lives instead of what we don’t—the accomplishing of extraordinary feats
that will cause us to crap our pants in excitement when achieved.
It’s important to note that doing this isn’t rooted in a
simple “feel-good, let’s all be happy” mentality. It’s rooted in science and logic. When you live your life with great vision and in pursuit of
goals, bad habits such as laziness, over-drinking and over-eating, take it upon
themselves to fall by the wayside.
Your pursuit of your overriding vision will dictate that you be at your
best and anything that slows you down will naturally and easily slip out of
your routine. This is what is
known as resolving smart!
Ellen Degeneres is a perfect example of someone who
successfully employed this “think big, not bad” New Year’s Resolution
model. Last year, Ellen
decided that her one and only New Year’s Resolution was going to be appearing
on the cover of “O” magazine. To
fully appreciate the balls and scope associated with this aim, one must realize
that in its nine years of existence, no one other than Oprah had appeared on
the cover. If you follow such
things, you already know how this story ends. Ellen found her way to the December 2009 cover. And in
Ellen’s year of thinking big she became a Cover Girl model and also the newest
judge on American Idol, even though she has no musical background!
So ditch your New Year’s Resolutions—if you haven’t
already—and “think big, instead of bad!”
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About Erika Lyremark
Erika Lyremark, Professional Ass
Kicker, Speaker, Radio Host, Author, and Founder of Daily Whip has made an art
and a science out of ass-kicking.
Delivering her years of experience and love of pain straight into your
tender ears with all the subtlety and tact of a pit-bull in stilettos.
Having spent nine years as an exotic dancer, Erika had finally had
enough and kicked her own ass into co-creating a multimillion-dollar commercial
real estate investment firm. With her passion and drive restored, she
then realized that she had a deep desire to light a fire under the countless
other souls out there toiling in a life not their own.
You can learn more about Erika at DailyWhip.com and her blog Wisdom from
the Whip. She is also soon releasing her first book, “Think Like a
Stripper: How to Make it in any Economy”.
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