One week into the New Year and you may have already gotten off track—losing motivation and traction to follow through with your intentions for the New Year. The key to get back on track and improve your follow through is to cultivate curiosity and adapt your plan.

I’ve been having conversations with people on social media and beyond recently about how they feel stuck and miserable at their job. These jobs--often within corporate environments--are a slave of sorts. The corporation keeps you enslaved with awesome benefits, great pay, stock options, and the illusion of security. This can leave a person wondering--if all of these circumstances are so awesome, why do I feel miserable?

How is it going with your New Year’s intentions? Have you lacked follow through or are you staying strong? This lack of follow through is when the inner critic (may) jump in and tell us stories about how we are a failure---how we can never change, that we’re lazy, incapable…(insert all unhelpful narratives here). Your inner critic is lying to you. You are not a failure. You are not incapable. You are simply out of alignment with what is important to you. Read that again: You are simply out of alignment with what is important to you.

Whether you know it or not, you have been a part of an organization at war at some point in your life. It may be your job, family, spiritual community...any of these can undergo serious conflict or strife which can sometimes feel like war.