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Make Every Day New Year's Day!

   Make Every Day Count!

If you want to make and keep a New Year Resolution it's vitally important to pursue just one major life-changing resolution about which you have great interest, desire and passion.  It is equally important to know the 'who, what, when, where, why, and how' of your New Year Resolution.  It's important to consistently do the on-going homework and research that will answer those questions and enable you to build and update a long and short-range plan.

With a heartfelt, realistic resolution, a plan, a system that works for you, willingness to work hard, patience, passion, and persistence you can achieve anything.  No more impossible dreams, failed resolutions and empty promises.

Start Your Journey - I Resolve To . . . Formula For Success:

Dream  +  Resolution  +  Daily Goals  =  Success,  Achievement  &  Reward!

How To To Make And Keep Your Resolution:

1. Dare To Dream about all the wonderful possibilities.
2. Decide To 'Go For It' in the New Year.
3. Define your dream in one positive, specific sentence that answers 'what and why'.
4. Develop A Plan that includes short and long range goals, timelines, milestones, and answers the questions about 'who, when, and how'.
5. Do It Daily, one goal, one day at a time for one year.
6. Create a list of Lifetime Resolutions, the things you would love to do, learn, achieve, create, experience, see, be, feel, have while you are here on this earth.
7. Make just one large, life-altering resolution, not 10 major resolutions.
8. Make just one large, life-altering resolution about which you have great desire and passion.
9. Focus like a laser on that one resolution.
10. Make a few mini-resolutions to keep things interesting, learn new things, and keep the momentum going.
11. Keep a Daily Resolution Diary that measures progress, charts next steps and rewards.
12. Maintain a 12-month calendar to schedule daily goals, track milestones, and map your plan.
13. Set deadlines for goals, but don't beat yourself up if you fall behind - revise plans instead.
14. Be realistic about what you can achieve each day, week, month - set realistic goals.
15. Visualize the desired outcome, make it a priority, keep it front and center.
16. Wear your resolution, tape it to your mirror, carry it in your wallet, put it on your screen saver.
17. Enlist the support of friends and family members.
18. Tell the world!
19. Do your homework - knowledge is power and continual learning will promote progress.
20. As plans change review the 'who, what, why, when, where, and how'.
21. Be accountable, flexible and willing to make course corrections.
22. Think ahead and plan for obstacles - brainstorm a way around.
23. Life is full of 'Overtaken By Events' - OBE - be flexible, prepared, and willing to compromise.
24. Believe in yourself, your talents, abilities, and your dream, resolution and daily goals.
25. Stay focused - keep your eye on the prize, what you plan to achieve, at all times.
26. Find a mentor who can lend support, advice, and leadership through good and bad times.
27. Join a club - surround yourself with folks who share your passion and can lend motivation.
28. Take a class - increase your knowledge.
29. Start a blog - write daily; build or join a community filled with like-minded folks.
30. Be a mentor - learn by doing, teaching, leading by example.
31. Just show up - some days just showing up is all it takes to make progress and build momentum.
32. Get organized, stay organized.
33. Be patient, passionate and persistent.
34. Remind yourself about your accomplishments and reward yourself.
35. Remember some daily progress is better than 'no progress' or not pursuing your dream at all.
36. Know your strengths and use them. 
37. Know your weaknesses and learn how to overcome them.
38. Be willing to work hard and stay committed through good times and bad times.
39. Have fun, enjoy the journey.
40. Be grateful for all you have and all you are - give back and be generous - Good Karma!
41. Be determined and diligent - stay positive and maintain your optimism.
42. Be a Resolutionista:  Make resolutions, keep resolutions, enjoy the journey!
43. Do what you love, love what you do.

Recipe For Broken Promises And Failed Resolutions:

1. Procrastinate.
2. Give in to fear of success or fear of failure.
3. Get overwhelmed or discouraged.
4. Grow weary, bored, or burned out.
5. Give Up!
6. Make a long laundry list of negative things that you feel you should change - the Sins - but lack desire to actually make change a reality.
7. Make a resolution for someone else instead of yourself.
8. Make the same resolutions year after year with zero progress.
9. Make hasty alcohol-induced resolutions on the back of a cocktail napkin at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
10. Make last minute New Year resolutions without careful thought and planning.
11. Set the bar too high by having unrealistic expectations.
12. Beat yourself up for mistakes, unrealistic expectations and unrealistic goals.
13. View failure as a negative experience - instead grow and learn from it, then move forward.
14. Expect something for nothing - gain with no pain.
15. Go it alone.
16. Let bad attitude stand in your way - think about your moods and actions.
17. Sleepwalk passively through your days - make conscious decisions and choices.
18. Check-In infrequently, thus failing to track progress, milestones, and timeline deadlines.
19. Set unrealistic daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
20. Lose motivation and momentum - plan ahead.
21. Lose focus, flexibility, or faith in yourself and your dream, resolution and daily goals.
22. Lose patience, passion, persistence, or your positive attitude.
23. Forget your primary objective: 'why' you're pursuing your dream, resolution, and daily goals.
24. Expect overnight results.
25. View your dream, resolution and daily goals as a chore.
26. Let negative friends, family members, colleagues stand in your way - find a way around, protect your dream, resolution and daily goals.
27. Let obstacles stand in your way - know when you are creating obstacles.
28. Let the 'Someday, Someday, Someday Syndrome rule your life.
29. Live a life of regret for what you could have done, achieved, created, been, experienced.
30. Let people tell you, you can't achieve your dream - believe in yourself and your abilities.
31. Lose your 'fire in the belly'.
32. Give in and 'give up'.

Remember:  I Resolve To . . . Achieve My New Year Resolutions, One Resolution, One Day At A Time For One Year.  It's your choice.  Do it today. Turn your resolution into reality in five simple, common sense steps:  Dare To Dream, Decide, Define, Develop A Plan, and Do It Daily. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution, something that's with you for good!  Above all, Be A Resolutionista, someone who makes resolutions, keeps resolutions, and enjoys the journey!  Let's Go For It!

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