A wonderful opportunity is just around the corner! In just 12 days you and I will celebrate New Year's Day. A centuries old tradition, folks reflect on what they've achieved in the past year, what they would like change and achieve in the New Year. Personally, I use it as a brand new blank sheet of paper on which I can write a new chapter in my life. One of my New Year rituals is to throw open the windows, clean my house, and get my life organized, and de-cluttered. It's a prelude for achievement: One resolution, one day at a time for one year!
If you open your mind and dare to dream, 2007 can be an exciting year full of challenge and fulfillment. Sounds big, broad and vague doesn't it? Well, let me bring it down to earth. In 2007 you can make a choice to pursue a treasured dream that has languished. Maybe you've never admitted to anyone that you even have a dream. Maybe your dream is just a tiny spark in your heart and mind. The new year can be an opportunity to turn the spark into a flame, pursue your dream.
Just one dream. You don't have to change your life overnight. You don't have to draft the same long, tired list of New Year Resolutions that you stuffed in your desk drawer last January. In 2007 pursue just one dream - One resolution, one day at a time for one year. You don't need to move a boulder up a mountain in 2007: race from one resolution to another, until you finally get so overwhelmed and exhausted that you give up! There is an alternative.
Join me here at IResolveTo in January. I'll provide a step-by-step guide for how you can achieve your dream. If you're not sure which dream to pursue, I can help you with that too. Take the first step right now: Dare to Dream! Open your mind and consider the possibility that you can achieve your 2007 New Year Resolution - your dream - if you make that choice. If you believe in yourself and your dream, and if you give yourself the gift of time - 365-days - you will be rewarded with success and fulfillment.
Just think, if you pursue one dream each year, those achevements will be with you for your entire life. You'll end up with a long list of New Year Resolutions that you 'MADE AND KEPT', instead of a drawer full Resolutions that never saw the light of day because they were unrealistic and ill-conceived. And because you raised the bar so high, you never gave yourself a chance to grow and learn enough to actually make the big leap over it!
Achieving a New Year Resolution - a dream - requires a leap of faith. It takes committment and hard work. It takes a promise that you make to yourself to make time for yourself and your dream in 2007. Open your mind. Dare to dream. Then make that all important decision in January to 'go for it' in 2007. One resolution, one day at a time for one year! Happy Holidays!
Kim M. Simpson - December 20, 2006
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