10 Simple Strategies to Employ Right Now to Ensure 2016 is Your Best Year Ever

We’ve all heard the Einstein-ism, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Keeping that in mind as you ring in 2016, maybe it’s time that you tried seeing, thinking, reacting, and acting in different ways than you’ve done in the past, particularly if 2015 wasn’t your banner year.

Are you currently feeling like you’re stuck in the mud and going nowhere fast? Perhaps you’re one of those people who doesn’t believe in going to therapy, or you have no time to go, or you’ve been going ad infinitum and yet nothing ever seems to change, and you’re wondering if the upcoming New Year is just going to be a rehash of this less-than-stellar year? No matter what your story is, the solution is the same: You need to look at the world with new eyes, a new mindset, and practice some simple day-to-day behavior modification techniques as outlined below:

1) Cultivate a Positive Mindset. Unfortunately, the negative thoughts come all by themselves, and we have to program ourselves to think more positively. Start practicing the Law of Attraction by visualizing positive outcomes. You’ve got to see it, believe it, and watch it manifest.

2) Stop Playing Victim. Instead, start being the master of your destiny. Stop blaming your mommy and daddy for your lousy life. Yeah, your childhood might have been hard, but that’s done and gone. Some things we just have to let go of and move on. Create a new life for yourself from this moment forward. If you keep saying negative things then negative things will keep happening. Watch your words, deeds, and actions, and watch your life start changing for the better.

3) Start Talking about the Pink Elephant in the Room. Stop dancing around the obvious. Stop sweeping issues under the carpet. Clear the air by talking about what’s in your mind and heart. Remember to temper your honesty with kindness. Learn to say what you mean, mean what you say, but don’t be mean about it. Let 2016 be the year of truth, not denial. See yourself moving forward by forgiving the past. Honor what was good, and let go of what you can’t change.

4) Step Out of Your Comfort Zone. Try something new. Go some place by yourself. You don’t always need someone to hold your hand. If you don’t like your current job, find something else that needs doing and do it. There’s no shortage of work or money on this planet, so go out and find your abundance.

5) Don’t Know If You Want to Stay or Go in Your Relationship? Then this is the year to fix it or leave it. Doing nothing is negative karma. Don’t wait until the universe steps in to help fix things, because that kind of help is usually a good, quick kick in the ass that has you landing on your knees. Better to take baby steps to change your own life first, and then the universe will step in and meet you half way.

6) Live in the Now. Take it one day a time. Stop with the “what if this” and “what if that” worry thoughts that make you live in a high anxiety state of dreading the future. Let go of the past and the “if only this” and “if only that” thinking. Stop living in the land of regret and remorse. All we have is today.

7) Try Embracing Change, Instead of Fighting It. If there were one word that is a synonym for life it would be change. Stop fighting the inevitable. Life moves on and adaptability is one of the keys to surviving on this planet.

8) Lighten Up. Laugh more. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Cultivate a new attitude that reflects an “it-doesn’t-matter attitude” about insignificant, trivial ups and downs in your day.

9) Make this a Year of Health. If you’ve been saying that you need to stop smoking, boozing, drugging, then do it already. If you need to lose weight or workout more, then start doing it. Big health changes can happen by making small changes each day. Drink more water. Drink less coffee. You know what you need to do to be healthier, so no more excuses for the abuses you heap on your body. Start treating your body well: It is the holy temple that houses your soul.

10) Believe that Life is a Gift of Learning. Stop forcing the universe to give you the same lessons over and over again, because you refuse to learn what you’re on earth to learn in the first place.

Cindi Sansone-Braff, The Romance Whisperer, talks to the dead to show you how to live well and love better. She is the author of Grant Me a Higher Love and Why Good People Can’t Leave Bad Relationships. Free excerpts of these books are available on Amazon. She has also been featured as a relationship expert in: the Huffington Post, YourTango, Bustle.Com, the Inquisitir News, About.com Dating, and the Deseret News. Call-in or listen every Thursday night, 7:00 pm EST, to her radio show, where you can get free psychic and relationship advice: www.blogtalkradio.com/higher-love. Be sure to check out her web site at: www.grantmeahigherlove.com. She was named Best Psychic five years in a row by the Long Island Press, recommended by Newsday as one of the best psychic/mediums on Long Island, featured in the Daily News and Cablevision’s Neighborhood Journal. Visit her Facebook Page: Why Good People Can’t Leave Bad Relationship, which has 25,000 followers.