New Year's Goals

Resolutions, goals, whatever you want to call them, they still boil down to the same thing year after year. Empty promises made with the excitement of another new year and another new beginning. "I'm going to..." and "This year I plan to..." get you pumped up with anticipation of finally accomplishing what you really want to get done this year, whether it is losing weight, making more money, vacationing somewhere, or cleaning your house. Then comes the disappointment and frustration during the year when another failure is swept under the rug.

Each year you get one year closer to death and lose another year of could have's and should have's. Take a stand this year and get it done. Words are just words. As they say, "Actions speak louder than words." Don't list twenty million things you want to accomplish during the year. List one thing. One thing only? Yes, because if you could have accomplished it last year it still wouldn't be on your list.

If businesses want to succeed they need to create a business plan. You need to create your own personal plan and write it down. The objective will be that goal. List all of the steps that you will need to do to accomplish it. When you start to write out the details of something, it makes you take a good hard look at what will or won't work.

Make a collage and post it in a place where you will see it everyday to remind you of what you want to do. This is good especially if you want a new car, new home, a special place you want to travel to, a new office instead of a spare room in your home, and so on.

Go and accomplish your goal for 2007!