# 26

As we approach the New Year, I would like to extend my wishes for a healthy, happy, and prosperous 2002 to you and your family. May God bless and protect you in the coming year. Tom

The only constant we can be sure of is change. It is not what happens to you, but how you handle what happens to you that counts.

2002 is sure to bring change to our lives. Most of us will start off the New Year with a New Year's Resolution. According to Webster's Collegiate Dictionary the definition for resolution: to resolve. Resolve means: to reach a firm decision about (i.e.-get more sleep). During the first few days and weeks of the New Year, we are bound and determined to accomplish that resolution. But, somehow we fail. Why? Got a few minutes? Go to http://quiz.iVillage.com take the Quiz--Are You a Resolution Keeper? There are ten short questions to answer, then click on calculate results. It will tell you a little about yourself and your chance of keeping your New Year's Resolutions.

However, if you don't want to bother with the quiz, here are a few pointers that may help you to keep you resolutions.

"A narrow comfort zone makes dream achieving impossible"

Expand your comfort zone in 2002—

• Value success over entertainment
• Set challenging goals
• Develop a feeling of certainty that success is inevitable
• Do the thing that is hard to do
• Feel the fear and do it anyway
• Eliminate try from your vocabulary--try is a three letter word for failure
• Strike procrastination

To be successful, you have to keep moving. After all, no one stumble on something sitting down.

Have a "Goal Party" for yourself--get out a pen/pencil and paper. Write down everything that you would like to achieve in 2002. What do you really want to accomplish--family, health, faith, job, finances, and travel--in the coming year? Prioritize your goals by their importance to you. Set a deadline to accomplish your goals. Are there other people involved in your goals--share them with them. Get them on your side.

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we stare so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." Helen Keller

Anyway
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds.
Think BIG anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow top dogs.
Fight for some underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.

Contact Tom at: tomhughes@motivationNmore.com

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