How to Succeed with Your New Years Resolutions

Every New Year papers and magazines publish scores of articles about shedding pounds. Every other commercial is aimed at selling a stronger and more confident new "YOU" through education or exercise, and infomercials shout that we will be complete with a new relationship or investment. To accomplish these goals individuals must give up old ideas to be successful with the new. A prime example is to be successful with any of the new low carbohydrate diets the dieter must surrender old ideas about counting fat and calories. Most of us have trunks packed with out-dated ideas. The weight of lugging this "stuff" around is a heavy burden. Some of these ideas are land mines to any hoped success in new endeavors. Emotional weight is the biggest reason for overeating.

With change comes friction. The friction occurs when the new rubs against the old. The friction is intensified when life is viewed from lenses muddied with fuzzy belief systems and old emotional baggage. Excess emotional baggage can contribute to excess stress and keep us stuck in the mire. Trying to prevent change or trying to change others can produce satchels of anxiety and resentments. Change is and inside job. If you want external change, you need to start with some internal house keeping. Here are six ways recommended ways to shed pounds of emotional baggage in the coming year: