I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions.  Not because I wouldn’t keep them, but because I find the annual ritual meaningless and, quite frankly, self-defeating.  As if by sheer will alone we can leave our wired, burned-in neuronets behind to make a promise to ourselves that, well, we promise to keep this time!

Instead, I strive to create my day, each day, and thereby create a new year and a new life every day!

I do this in several ways, all are deliberate.  The first way is to keep a Daily Abundance Journal so I can observe, celebrate and accelerate the flow of abundance in my life.  This is one of the practices of “allowing” that Michael Losier talks about in his book, Law of Attraction.  You’re probably familiar with the phrase “you get more of what you track.”  Track your number of sales calls, appointments set, presentations made, orders closed… and you’ll tend to get more of everything.

It’s the same with abundance whether it’s a lucrative contract you just landed, or just landed the last parking space in front of the store you’re going to.  When you observe something, you get more of it, whether you want that thing or not.  We attract to ourselves whatever we give our attention, energy and focus to… whether positive or negative.  In a large sense our life is a self-fulfilling prophecy based on our positive and negative vibrations.

This whole mysterious realm of Law of Attraction gets even more mysterious, or more clear, depending on your perception of it, at the level of quantum physics.  Everything is essentially energy pulsating at a specific frequency, we are all a part of this energy, and all the parts, including ourselves, are connected and entangled.  It is at this substratum of consciousness that thought manifests reality.  This is why we get more of what we observe.  Observation creates the object observed.  (Please note: There is NO consensus, even among quantum physicists, that such a radical “philosophical idealism” is actually operative, or whether and to what extent it scales up to the world of the senses we know so well.  Nevertheless, I personally subscribe to this particular viewpoint.)

And so I observe and celebrate and believe that in so doing I am accelerating more of the same.  One thing is for certain, belief – which is the absence of doubt – is necessary for attracting anything!

Reflecting on Last Year’s Successes

So I observe my abundance each day, and I do so in reflection of what I accomplished over the course of the year.  2011 was a great year for me and 2012 is even greater.  Reflecting on the accomplishments of the past year is the second way I deliberately create my day, my new year, and my life.  In 2011

• I became a Certified Law of Attraction Facilitator and Trainer with Michael Losier; and conducted numerous LOA seminars in 2011 (continuing in 2012);
• I brought on the Waterfront Beach Resort (Hilton) in Huntington Beach, CA as an ongoing corporate client, for whose executive team I conducted strategic planning (continuing into 2012);
• I brought on Alandale Insurance Agency as an ongoing corporate client for whom I delivered weekly trainings to their sales team (continuing into 2012);
• I became one of just a handful of select business coaches for Top One Coaching, a subsidiary of the JT Foxx Organization, and for whom I have nearly 20 coaching students (continuing into 2012);
• I brought on the Irvine Public Schools Foundation (IPSF) as an ongoing non-profit client for whom I am facilitating strategic planning (continuing into 2012);
• I conducted Strategic Planning for Pro App Creators, LLC, whose mission is to “create innovative apps that bring life to your mobile device,” and I became a minority owner in this startup;
• I co-founded Business Elite Mastermind™ to give entrepreneurs and business owners an unparalleled experience of building their enterprise and legacy; DVDs of the launch event are available here;
• I wrote a chapter called, “What is Your End Game?” for a book on goal setting by Eric Lofholm, John Assaraf and others titled, Step into Your Vision: Top Business Leaders Share Their Goal Setting Secrets;
• A business partner and I conceptualized a product to enhance neural reconditioning in vision building as described in the Assaraf-Murray Smith book, The Answer; the product will be available in March;
• I began negotiations with a Latin American company to become its coaching arm in Latin America.

I did not go through this litany to boast in an arrogant or egotistical way, but to share my successes with these...