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Happy New Year Everyone

Have you noticed what the advertisers want you to do this New Year? All you have to do is turn on the TV. Weeks before Thanksgiving all we see food, food and more food we start eating at thanksgiving and stop December 31. Come December 31 all you see are weight loss and gym commercials. I assume they will run for the next two weeks until we all give up on our advertising induced diet and start thinking about Valentine’s Day simply because that is what Hallmark would want us to think of.

Well forget all that and decide exactly want you really want to accomplish this year. Make this decision on your own and decide to go for it with focus and determination needed to make yourself feel proud of your accomplishment at the end of this year. However, if losing weight, getting a date for Valentine’s Day and eating none stop for the last six weeks of the year is your goal for the year: then please feel free to make yourself proud at the end of this New Year.

Bottom line: Everyone thinks they have a say in how you should live your life but you will never live the life of your dreams by doing things other people think is best for you. Do not spend another year disappointing yourself do what is best for you now.

Happy New Year,

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Happy Holidays Everyone.

I wish you all the very best in the New Year.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, you made my year.

Thanks

This is a chronicle of what has turned out to be the best year of my life. Yes, it finally came, one entire year that I was happy no matter what. I am a big advocate of learning from the past and if my year building what I have proudly deemed a success website from scratch* helps you start to create the life of your dreams this coming year, then there is a purpose to this blog.

*By “scratch” I mean that, as of January 4, 2006, I did not know I wanted to create a successful website, I just didn’t know what I wanted to do. I had no idea what it took to create a successful website and I had never attempted to build a website.

“You must first learn to crawl before you can walk.” – Unknown

This saying encapsulates my year in review. Here is a peak into the journal entry of a person about the have the year of her life so far.

January 1, 2006, Midnight
Goals for the year: I declare that this year I will:

• Publish my amazing self-help book


• Buy a new computer


• Finish art projects


• Redecorate my home


• Lose weight


• Start an exercise program


• Buy a new home


• Save 30% of my earnings


• Make new friends


• Go out more


• Travel the world

This is going to be an amazing year, tomorrow I will start my Perricone Diet and go running, okay jogging with some walking. I will review all my writing of the last three years and emerge with an amazing best-selling book. Yes, these are my goals for 2006, I am going to hit the ground running.

January 2, 2006
I hate writing, I hate editing, will start diet tomorrow, need to finish food from the New Year’s party and what am I to do with all this alcohol? Continue Reading »

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. – Napoleon Hill

Overcoming procrastination is a simple combination of mind and body, as in, you have to know what you need to do and do it now, but only if it was that simple. You know what needs to be done it is the getting up and doing it part that is so hard, right? However the work never goes away until you do it or abandon it.

Procrastination festers, you know you should be dealing with the job at hand, but you find any excuse to linger longer in bed, work on something else that is not even as remotely important as what you should be really doing. Then the guilt sets in, Continue Reading »

Yes, there is some good stress. The kind of stress that makes you act, the kind of stress that motivates you. I look at some stress in my life as time to move onto something better. Stress can be an indicator for change, but you have to know how to analyze your stress and see that it is a good thing.

The stress that most of us encounter daily is of no use what so ever to us. In fact, this stress is harmful it can cause an assortment of health problems and unhappiness for you and the ones you love.

Stress will not go away unless you take control and do something about it. You have to face that which stresses you out and eliminate it from your life. Then you have to take care of yourself. Stress has a way of lingering in the body and it will manifest in some form of illness sooner or later, so get rid of it.

Stress like everything else in our lives takes applying a little mind control, and I don’t mean drugs. I mean taking time to analyze your situation and take action. Every little thing you do to eliminate stress from your life performs wonders on your body and you will notice the difference.

Think about it, do something, then relax.

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
—James Howell, Proverbs (1659)

Jack, Jane, Abi, Ronnie, whomever you are, all work and no play? What is the point of everything then?

Take sometime to play, hang out, I mean have fun. I bet if you are anything like me you could not list ten things you like to do for fun that doesn’t include catching up on sleep.

We spend so much time in the grind of everyday life that we forget what it means to experience life. If we spend all our time doing some kind of work, life will not only pass you by, but you will come out feeling like you have been run over by a truck.

Do something, plan a day of fun, do something different and relaxing for yourself and do it soon.

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