Our Top Ten New Year Resolutions       

Year after year you are overweight, out of shape, in debt, with no savings, career stuck, never getting more education, dreaming about but never traveling, unorganized, still waiting to meet someone, promising the family that you will do more, talking about helping people, saying that you will take more time for you, and if you smoke you're still smoking.

How do we deal with ourselves? We promise this year is the year I will do it and then we make the same New Year Resolutions. Every year we hear and we make the same New Year Resolutions. Typically the top ten Resolutions go:

Lose Weight,  Get in Shape

Save Money,  Pay down Credit debt

Improve My Career, Get More Education

Travel

Get Organized

Meet Someone

Spend More Time with Family

Volunteer

Take More Time for Me

Quit Smoking

The year passes and still we are in the same place we started. Good thing there is another New Year because at least for a little bit you believe you are going to do something. The great thing is there is always another year to give you that opportunity. Or is there?

I bet with this economic crisis all those years you said you would save money, pay off credit card debt, improve your career skills and get more education, I bet you wished you had. Now that crisis is hitting, you don't have the same opportunity. 

I imagine when we hit health crisis, diabetes, heart issues, and lung cancer, we wish we could go back in time to a New Year where we said we would lose weight, get in shape and quit smoking and really do it.

When the kids are off to college, you then regret not having taken more time with the family.

The same is true with all your resolutions, year after year does not give you the same opportunity because year after year circumstances change.  Although I do believe that you can change your life at any time once you decide to, we also have to live in reality that we only get so many years and if we don't use them we don't get them back.

Let's make this a year of real change. Let's make 2009 a year we got into action and followed through.

No More New Year, Whoops, another year slipped by and I did not get what I wanted done.

Instead make it a New Year, Wow...look at what I have done!

Congrats in advance...

Devlyn