There is an axiom which states that you can't change your beginning, but you can change your ending. With great emotion, most of us have started out 2011 with great anticipation of a different ending in our finances, our faith, and our family. It has been close to 20 days into the new year and there is the tension between the new you and the old you. The tension between going back to the ways things were or pressing through into a new paradigm or new place in your life. For some of us, the temptation of comfort and ease will bring us back to our old self, but for others, we are determined to see our lives in a different light.

The challenge to all of us is to press through the resistance of comfort and create a new lifestyle for us. If all of us want change, it can't be just transactional, where we move the furniture around in the den/living area, where we place highlights and new color over or aging disposition, and six weeks later, we find ourselves back in the saloon. It can't be the goal to lose 15 pounds and find ourselves reaching the goal only to find the weight back ten weeks later. True growth creates new routines, new paradigms of seeing the world, new limitations, new challenges and opportunities, and a new way of living.

Change the way you look at change, begin looking at the routine over the results, the direction over the destination, the interior over the exterior, and when you begin to make the difficult changes on life, you'll create the designed lifestyle you desire!

Fast