From Underearning to Abundance » New Year http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com How to leave the darkness of Underearning for a bright life of Abundance Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:56:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Happy New Year http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/2011/01/happy-new-year/ http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/2011/01/happy-new-year/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:28:40 +0000 ElinAnna http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/?p=364 Fireworks from Iceland.  Everybody shooting up fireworks.

Love and peace,

ElinAnna

]]> http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/2011/01/happy-new-year/feed/ 1 Are New Year’s resolutions doomed to fail? http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/2009/12/are-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions-doomed-to-fail/ http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/2009/12/are-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions-doomed-to-fail/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:15:47 +0000 ElinAnna http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/?p=225 Continue reading →]]> If your New Year’s resolutions have failed in the past, then you are in the majority.  The fact is that most people who make New Year’s resolutions fail to keep them.  Well, we might have suspected that this would be the case.  Now a group of researchers at the University of Hertfordshire in England have shown that it is actually so.  The main reason they found is that most people focus on how awful it would be to fail.  In their attempt to keep their New Year’s resolution, people half heartedly try to fight their temptations and only dream of reaching the goal.  Then they look for someone who supposedly reached the goal, plaster their picture up for motivation.  plaster their picture up on their wall or refrigerator for motivation in the hope that this will help.  On top of everything else, people put their trust only in their own willpower to get them where they want to go and don’t make any plans for how to get there.  This a sure way to fail at your New Year’s resolution.

So now you know how to increase the probability of accomplishing your New Year’s resolution.  Do the opposite of the failure described above.  Follow what the researchers found by doing the following:

  1. Make a plans for how to achieve your goal
  2. Involve others (get support and accountability)
  3. Focus on how positive it will be when each small step of your plan is reached
  4. Keep a journal over the journey to help you understand your successes so you can do them again!

and you will drastically increase the probability of reach your new year’s resolution.

So good luck and have a great New Year!

Love and peace,

ElinAnna

]]> http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/2009/12/are-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions-doomed-to-fail/feed/ 0 What have you been up to this year? http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/2009/11/what-have-you-been-up-to-this-year/ http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/2009/11/what-have-you-been-up-to-this-year/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:57:27 +0000 ElinAnna http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/?p=213 Continue reading →]]> Eleven months ago the year 2009 was just about to start.  What were your intentions for 2009?  Did you have any New Year’s resolutions?  So many people make New Year’s resolutions and they start working on them in the New Year.  Unfortunately the New Year soon becomes old and those resolutions fall by they wayside.  If you did make resolutions or some kind of decision about changing things in your life, what were they and how has it been to accomplish them?

Even though quitting smoking and healthy living, like dieting and exercise, are the most popular resolutions or lifestyle decisions for the New Year, changing their money situation is something many underearners plan on doing.  They all have different ideas about how to accomplish that.  Often it has to do with keeping track of every cent they spend, not to overdraw their checking account and so on.  Then there are those who are not going to let money ruin any more years of their lives and simply ignore money all together, with the mindset that it will all work itself out somehow.

Tackling the money problem is not easy, especially if you don’t change the way you view money.  Having a love/hate relationship with money, where the hate is the dominating factor, is not going to be very helpful.  Having negative feelings towards someone never results in a good relationship.  I know that I would never like to stay with someone who had very negative feelings towards me.  So it is no wonder money doesn’t stay.  Would you?  The the important part in getting out of this vicious cycle of underearning is to change your view of money.  Then you can start moving toward a Life of Abundance in the New Year.

Love and peace,

ElinAnna

]]> http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/2009/11/what-have-you-been-up-to-this-year/feed/ 0 What has the last quarter of the year in store for me? http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/2009/10/what-has-the-last-quarter-of-the-year-in-store-for-me/ http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/2009/10/what-has-the-last-quarter-of-the-year-in-store-for-me/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:32:19 +0000 ElinAnna http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/?p=194 Continue reading →]]> We all know of the New Year’s resolutions and what happens to them.  On the eve of the New Year resolutions are made all over the world, by all kinds of people.  They all have the greatest intention to make the New Year’s resolutions happen.  So they start the New Year with great enthusiasm.

Gyms fill up with people that have made their resolution to improve their health.  Courses about stop smoking are never as popular as at that time of the year.  Yes, they are all going to improve their lives.  But what happens as the year progresses is that intentions fall short of actually doing.  Life happens and we keep living it the way we always have.

For this reason my family didn’t subscribe to this idea of New Year’s resolutions.  Instead we just kept on going as always.

What I have been doing this year is somewhat different.  It is something that Morgana Rae introduced to me.  It is to set a Theme for the year.  In that there are no promises to break.  No goals to fall short and forget.

A Theme is something that you want to have happen during the year.  You tell the Universe/God, this is what you are looking for.  Then as the year progresses you look at how you are doing on the Theme.  I like to take stock on how things are going every quarter.

As I was looking at how my Theme was going, I noticed that my writing has been falling to the wayside.  So I made a change in my approach and I’m starting up my writing again.

At the end of this year things will look very different from when I started on this journey and what I didn’t believe would happen has already happened.  I am writing!  What a difference for me.

What is your Theme going to be for the next 12 months?  Write about what you would like to realize in the next 12 months.  What could you do to live the Life of Abundance?

Love and peace,

ElinAnna

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