3 Foundations for January

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Are you feeling fully refreshed and ready to go into 2020 and achieve your goals? Do you feel like you have your plan and your intention set in a way that are going to help you to get the results that you want? Hi, this is Grant Herbert, International Influencer and Sustainable Performance Coach, and I want to kick off 2020 by giving you a message and some tips around 3 things that you can do to make sure that your January sets you up for success throughout 2020: UNPACK, UNPLUG AND UNLEARN.

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Are you feeling fully refreshed and ready to go into 2020 and achieve your goals? Do you feel like you have your plan and your intention set in a way that are going to help you to get the results that you want?

Hi, this is Grant Herbert, International Influencer and Sustainable Performance Coach, and I want to kick off 2020 by giving you a message and some tips around 3 things that you can do to make sure that your January sets you up for success throughout 2020.

So, happy New Year to all of you. Welcome to a new year, a new decade. I want to take you through 3 things that you and I can do in January while everybody else is still getting started again, having a think about whether or not I'll set some goals. Well, we're going to hit the ground running and do 3 things to set us up for success.

The first thing that we all can do as we start January is UNPACK.

I go on a lot of travel and, over the years, I've learned to pack well. However, it wasn't always that way. I would always take as much as I could, just in case. I'd be carrying baggage that I didn't need to carry, and it would hold me back, and it would make me less efficient, less productive.

And that's what we can do with the baggage from 2019. We can carry it and it will hinder our progress in 2020. So, the first thing that we need to do is get those bags out, open them up, and UNPACK. Take stuff out and discard it. Things that we don't need to take with us. Things that we don't need on the journey that we're going forward into.

Whatever it is, reach into the bag right now, grab hold of it, and throw it out. You don't need it. Unpack the unhealthy beliefs and behaviours from 2019. It's time to let them go.

Number 2 is UNPLUG.

Now, I'm not just talking about what some people do in January or different parts of the year. They're unplugged from social media or whatever. That could be part of it. So, one of the things that we can do in January is we can unplug from some of those unhealthy situations, relationships.

We need to unplug ourselves from situations, from behaviours, at the source. So, unplugging from anything that's going to distract us from our purpose, that's going to hold us back from moving forward. So, let's unplug.

The third thing that we're going to do in January is we're going to UNLEARN.

The brain is an amazing thing. It takes on information and it stores it and it forms patterns. So, before we can rebuild our neural pathways and have more healthy pathways to enable us to do what it is that we need to do, to be who we need to be so that we can achieve 2020 results, is we need to UNLEARN.

We need to take those beliefs, those thoughts, those ideas, that information that we've taken on as being true, and we need to reject it. We need to unlearn it. We need to go, "You know what, that's not serving me. That's not the right information based on the evidence that I've got."

So, that's it. That's the three things that we're going to do in January. We're going to unpack, we're going to unplug, and we're going to unlearn.

And, for those of you who work with me in our monthly online coaching sessions, then we're going to go deeper on those. And we're going to look at, specifically, what you can do so that you can set yourself up for an amazing 2020 by making January a foundational month. So join me on the journey. And, if you haven't already, then go and take a look at grantherbert.com/monthly and you can see how you can join us on that.

Well, that's it for me for the first week of 2020. Join me again next week when we continue to set ourselves up for an amazing year. I'll see you then.