What Are We Here For?

Welcome! 

This is the first blog posting of the Life Changing Project.  I’ve designed this blog to be an online journal of my progress as I work to become a successful Internet marketer and, basically, redesign my life. 

How many of you have made New Year’s resolutions … only to find yourself, at the next New Year’s Day making the same resolutions?  

Me too! 

And it’s not for lack of trying. 

I’ve read countless self-help books and taken countless courses (Tony Robbins, Esther Hicks, The Secret, Brian Tracy, Earl Nightingale … you name it). 

I loved them all.  

But nothing changed.  

After about three years of striving to improve my life, I am only moderately better off than I was three years ago. 

The problem wasn’t in my programs, it was in me.  

And what I have come to realize is that my failure to grow – as a businesswoman, as a mother, as a human being – had much to do with my own inconsistent behavior.  

Somewhere along the way I had become lazy and unfocused.  I would set goals, meet them halfway .. . and quit. 

When 2009 rolled around, I decided that this year would be different.  

REALLY! 

It’s a new year for our nation and a new year for me.  So I decided to take all the programs that I have loved throughout the years and incorporate them into my own program. 

I call it 2 Habits a Week. 

The gist of it is that every week I create two new habits that will aid me in achieving any one of my goals – be it business, fitness, being a better mother, becoming more organized, developing as a human being, whatever! 

On January 1, 2009, I started with two very easy, very basic habits. 

Would you believe the habits were to make my bed every day and to hang up my coat every time I took it off (have I mentioned that I’ve also tried the FlyLady approach?).

Hardly sounds like the start of a life changing experience, does it? 

But they were two habits that were very inconsistent with me (and I wanted to start off easy so that I wouldn’t get discouraged).  

And it did take some effort.  

When I had come home and would be going out again in half an hour, it was very tempting to toss my coat over a chair.  But I didn’t. 

The following week, I kept the original two habits and added two more.  Again, simple habits, but habits that I had either lost along the way – or never made a habit of in the first place. 

Every day, I save.  Right now, it’s only $1.  But I do it. 

And, every day, I text my youngest with a special “I love you” message (I’ve learned that she responds wonderfully to texting; it is just a great way to communicate with her). 

This week, a new habit is to blog daily about how this program is working out for me – both successes and failures. 

Tomorrow I’ll write about what I want to accomplish by January 1, 2010!