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Just about 10 days into the new year and a lot of people would probably agree with Kim David. New Year’s resolutions are very often a waste of time.
It isn’t that David believes that people can’t change. She doesn’t believe that resolutions are an effective way to create change. The best way to be a better you is to unleash the good stuff that is already within.
“We think that if we resolve to do something, we’ll then become something else and we’ll then get what we want,” she said.
Instead, you should “Listen to your body and then act from that place,” she says.
David, who is a life coach trained by Oprah Magazine columnist and life coach Martha Beck, will be teaching a series of classes starting Jan. 19 called “Unleash Your Creativity.”
The classes, being held at the new Wellness Center at 1517 Main St., are designed to eliminate creative roadblocks and false beliefs.
The whole framework is to get people to think more creatively,” she said. “I really believe that we can choose the way we think.”
The classes will teach a variety of ways to expand creativity, including the following ideas:
1. Create a “Vision Board”
A vision board is created by posting pictures and words which remind one of the goals desired. Seeing the reminders posted on the board every day will bring “inspired creative action,” David says, “so these things do come into your life.”
2. Bag it, Barter it, Better it
If there’s a chore or project you don’t want to do, either “bag it,” and don’t do it; “barter it,” by exchanging the chore with someone in return for doing one of their unwanted chores; or better it by finding a way to make it fun.
3. Spend time with people
who inspire you.
“This is a huge thing,” says David.
4. Listen to your body.
Say you’ve been invited to an office party and you get a terrible feeling in your stomach. That’s a clear feeling you don’t really want to go. See suggestion No. 2.
5. Allow creativity into your life.
Find a creative outlet, whether it be art, music or even cooking and make time for it once a week.
6. Journal.
Even if you write a few minutes a day, putting thoughts down on paper clears the mind. Try to include a few minutes every day to write down things you are grateful for. “I think people have more abundance than they are really aware of,” David said.
