Your 2016 Can Be an Anchor or an Engine

Another January is over. Some people have been back at work for most of the month and some are just getting started. Either way, it is time to move forward and implement our plans for 2017. So let's get started by getting a mindset that serves us around what happened in the year just past.

It's simple, your 2016 can be an anchor or an engine. The choice is yours.

Many people will focus on what they didn't achieve, their 'failures' and 'mistakes'. They are stuck in 2016 and it is holding them back, like an anchor disables a ship, and it feels like the anchor is getting bigger every year.

Successful people will choose to reflect briefly on their 2016 to focus on what it taught them. These lessons are then brought with them as fuel for the forward journey. Sure we made mistakes here and there. Everybody did. It's how we look at those mistakes that makes the difference. When we see how they have changed us and made us grow, they become a powerful engine to propel us forward.

What will you choose, an anchor that keeps you safe in the harbour or an engine that takes you on an adventure towards the better 2017 you promised yourself you were going to have?

You have everything within you and around you to make things happen the way you want them to be. Believe in yourself, start your engine, lift that anchor and get started today!