Some people made New Year’s Resolutions.  And 36% of those people, are looking at those good intentions in their rear view mirror by now.  If you are one of them, there’s no reason why you can’t ressurect them, or, if you didn’t make them at all on January 1, it isn’t too late to make them now.   Call them Valentine’s Resolutions and make them as an act of love for yourself.  What change, large or small, do you want to make that will help you live a life you love?  Will you express more love for someone?  Be more forgiving of yourself?  Quit smoking?  Stop tapping your foot?  Large or small, if there is a change you’d like to make, make it in the name of love, for yourself and everyone you touch.

As a first step, just decide what you’d like to do differently.  Phrase it in the positive.  Describe what you’d like to start doing, not what you’d like to stop doing.  Make sure it is something you really want to do and that you can commit to doing, not something you think you should do.  And, by want, I don’t mean that it might not be hard but that you can see enough value in it that when the going gets tough, you’ll stick with it.  Having a clear intention is the solid first step to change.  It’s the foundation from which you’ll build the rest of your plan.