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Happy New Year!!!

Well, its day 2 of 2007. For all you calendar watchers out there, this has got to be an exciting time… you just finished crossing off all the days in 2006 and now you have a whole new, fresh calendar.

So let me ask you this – how are you going to fill those days of 2007? What will you have written down in your calendar over the past 365 days when we get to this point next year? What successes will you have celebrated? What losses will you mourn? What will you have learnt? What new things will you have tried? What new habits will you have? What old habits will you have put to rest?

In short: what did you accomplish?

For me, looking back on last year, it was a banner year for me. I had a ton of wonderful experiences, met some amazing people, took some scary gambles, and enjoyed some fantastic successes. And this is the time to look back on all those times and reminisce with a smile on my face.

But on the flip side, I dropped the occasional ball. I tried to break bad habits that didn’t stick, and generally made some mistakes – thankfully none of them too drastic. But the mistakes I did make were all the result of losing my focus. Taking my eye off the ball.

So this year, without going into a long and drawn out explanation of what I did – or in the cases directly above – didn’t do, I’m going to let you in on my new resolution. Now, I simply call it a resolution, because I feel that one should make a resolution whenever and wherever one is needed – not because the calendar has tripped over another day. As we all know – there is no better time to start ANYTHING, but the present.

And so my resolution is to increase my focus so as to decrease the number of times I let my bad habits get the better of me.

What are you going to do this year? Do you have a new resolution for 2007? Or will you be battling the same old demons? Taking the fight to them and winning even more ground this year? Will 2007 be the year you finally turn the corner? Why not? What do you have to lose?

I once heard someone say: “fear is never a good reason not to do something”. Think about that for a moment… If you’re not doing something you want or need to be doing, chances are, that fear of some sort is holding you back. Remember, fear is false. Some define it as an acronym: False Evidence Appearing Real. However you want to think of it, it largely stems from an inner voice that tells you that you can’t do something. Make 2007 the year you stop listening to that voice.

Make 2007 the year you shine!

posted by Mark @ 10:25 PM