I RESOLVE TO . . .

I Resolve To™ . . . Turn My Resolution To Reality! - Day 90

We're at that three month mark!  Congratulations if you've been working diligently to keep your resolution, fulfill your dream, achieve your goal - good for you, give yourself a big pat on the back!  If you're struggling just a bit, or haven't gotten started, it's okay - there is lots of hope.  There's always hope.  You just need to maintain confidence in yourself and your dream.  Be patient.  Be persistent.  Be Passionate.  It's not hard if you set the bar high enough to give you a bit of challenge - but not so high that you make it the 'impossible dream'.  Take one small step each and every day.

You're probably asking what's the difference - how to determine how high to set the bar?  Keep it comfortable, so that you'll want to show up each and every day with your resolution, your dream.  Be realisitic about what you can achieve each day.  You don't have to achieve your dream in one day, one week, one month, one year.  If you make it a 'Lifetime Resolution' a 'Lifetime Dream' it's a quality of life issue, something positive that you make yours for life.  It's something that you do, just for you - and take one small step today, each and every day.  You don't have to achieve your dream, cross it off your list and move on - you keep your dream with you for life, something that you'll continue to enjoy!

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 31, 2007
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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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Enjoy My Life! - Day 89

Yes that wonderful day of the week - TGIF!!  I'm ready for a great weekend, are you?!  I hope you're able to devote a small portion of the weekend to you - do something nice just for you!  Novel idea, huh?  Well every now and then it's a good idea to reward yourself for working so hard.  I hope you're also able to carve out a little time for your cherished dream.  I offer a few words of inspiration to get you going!

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." Beverly Sills

"Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood."  Marie Curie

"It's all about setting priorities, doing the best you can, celebrating your wins, learning from your losses, and just 'getting up the next day to do it all over again."   Kim M. Simpson

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 30, 2007
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"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." Beverly Sills

"Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood."  Marie Curie

"It's all about setting priorities, doing the best you can, celebrating your wins, learning from your losses, and just 'getting up the next day to do it all over again."   Kim M. Simpson

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Bake A Cake! - Day 88

Lifetime Resolutions!  If you want to make and keep your 2007 resolution - for good - consider making a Lifetime Resolution.  For those folks who "make 'em, and soon break 'em", the notion of a Lifetime Resolution is probably akin to taking a vaction trip to the moon.  It probably sounds pretty far-fetched to a person who has a really tough time sticking with New Year resolutions. 

With that in mind, maybe it's time to change the paradigm - the way in which folks view New Year resolutions, their purpose, and how to keep them.  Let me give you a simple way to view this new paradigm - think of making and keeping resolutions, like baking a cake. 

1. Ingredient Number One is a dream - Dare To Dream!  Start with a dream about which you are passionate and extremely interested - something that you would enjoy pursuing, somethat that would enrich your life. 
2. Blend in Ingredient Number Two, your resolution - I Resolve To!  Resolve - decide firmly - to pursue your dream with great determination. 
3. Sprinkle in Ingredient Number Three:  lots and lots of goals - all the many steps that are necessary to turn your resolution to reality, one small step taken one day at a time.  Turn those steps into a long and short-range plan.
4. Add in Ingredients Number Four, Five, Six and Seven:  Patience, Passion, Persistence and Perseverence.
5. Stir and bake for one year - one small step, one day at a time - until you have one beautiful cake - one dream achieved that you can keep with you for life - A Lifetime Resolution.

You see, making and keeping a resolution isn't something that you do one day, complete, then move on.  If you have a dream such as maintaining great physical fitness, you want to keep that dream alive, live that dream year after year.  That means adapting your exercise plans as you go, to keep them fresh, fun and challenging, so you'll want to maintain your dream, your resolution for Life - A Lifetime Resolution.

Yes, you can achieve your dream, your resolution, your goal, day after day.  It's not hard.  You just need to start with one dream, one resolution - then make a commitment, develop a plan and do it daily.  You can do it.  Have faith in yourself and your dream!

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions and enjoys the journey as much as the destination!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 29, 2007
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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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions and enjoys the journey as much as the destination!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Give It My All This Week! - Day 87

Getting some good energy from the start of Spring?  Hope some of that new enthusiasm will be applied to your resolution, dream, goal in coming weeks and days.  With that in mind, I offer these words of inspiration . . . enjoy the rest of your week!

"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." Ayn Rand

"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage."  Charles Luckman

"The dream was always running ahead of one.  To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."  Anais Nin

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 28, 2007
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"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." Ayn Rand

"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage."  Charles Luckman

"The dream was always running ahead of one.  To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."  Anais Nin

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Do My Homework! - Day 86

Doing your homework is an incredibly important part of making and keeping New Year Resolutions.  If you don't know all the many things you need to do to achieve your resolution, it's impossible to move from Point A to Point B, day after day.  Without a system and a plan, it's like trying to sing a song without words and musical notes.  No can do!

If you really want to achieve your dream, resolution, goal - set aside some quiet time to sit in front of the computer, head to the library, and/or your favorite bookstore.  If your dream is to learn photography and you've never picked up a camera before, buy a beginners book about cameras, perspective, framing.  Ask yourself some important questions.  What is it that you really want to do?  Do you want to photograph people, landscapes, architecture.  Do you want to learn to shoot so you can create a photo-blog, or line your walls with your favorite photos?  Or do you want to learn to shoot becuase you enjoy the act of creating beautiful images, just for you? 

You need to sort out why you're pursuing your dream, what you hope to achieve, and what it will take to get there.  Homework - good old fashioned homework - will provide you with the answers to all these questions.  Doing your homework will help you to identify all the many small daily steps that it will take to achieve your resolution.  And you need to continue doing your homework. 

Personally I find that homework is a very satisfying part of the journey because I enjoy 'learning and doing'.  That said, the homework really never ends.  You need to do it to continue to move your resolution, your dream, goal forward - one small step at a time, one day at a time.  Do your homework and you will be able to build a plan that will guide you smoothly through your journey.  Yep, you'll still hit some bumps in the road, and be forced to jump some hurdles, but homework and a well developed plan will give you confidence to tackle the obstacles.  Yes, you can do it.  Yes, you will achieve your dream, resolution goal!

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions and enjoys the journey as much as the destination!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 27, 2007
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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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions and enjoys the journey as much as the destination!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Make Progress! - Day 85

The start of a new week, seven new opportunities to make progress on your resolution, dream, goal!  If you're making the journey one resolution, one day at a time, for one year, you have the 'Powever Of One' going for you.  It's a simple, common sense way to approach your New Year Resolutions.  It's a way to change the paradigm, the way that you traditionally approach New year Resolutions.

Instead of making that same, long, tired list of New Year resolutions - you start with one dream, turn it into a resolution, and make it a reality with daily goals - one small step, taken one day at a time for one year.  Sounds simple?  It is.  Making resolutions is easy.  Keeping them can be easy too - you just need a system, an approach that works for you.  Sometimes we just make it way too hard. 

If you're not good at setting goals, planning, organizing - start small.  If you have a list of 10 dreams you would like to achieve, don't pick the toughest one first - pick the easiest one first.  Get some momentum going.  Keeping resolutions takes practice, and hard work - it's an acquired skill.  But the rewards are well worth the price you will pay!

Don't set the bar too high.  You're not going to write that novel overnight.  If you're out of shape, it will take some time to tone those muscles, become strong and fit.  If you want to pay off your debt, you need a plan and time.  That's why I preach one resolution, one day at a time for one year.  Be patient, persistent and passionate and you will keep your resolution, fulfill your dream and achieve your goal, day after day.  Make every day New Year's Day.   Make each and every day count - a new opportunity to 'go for it'!

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 26, 2007
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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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Go For It This Week! - Day 84

A brand new week is just around the corner!  New opportunities to move your resolution, dream, goal forward one small step at a time, one day at a time.  Are you ready?  Are you inspired?  Are you committed and determined.  Here are some warm words of inspiration to point you in the right direction . . .

"If one is lucky a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."  Maya Angelou

''Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."  T.S. Eliot

"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions." Edgar Cayce

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 25, 2007
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"If one is lucky a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."  Maya Angelou

''Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."  T.S. Eliot

"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions." Edgar Cayce

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Hold Myself Accountable - Day 83

How is your New Year Resolution going?  We're at Day 83 of 2007, almost three months into the year - a good point to do a Weekly Check-In, as well as an 'End-Of The First Quarter' Check-In.  I strongly advocate for doing daily and weekly check-ins rather than once a month or every couple months because frequent check-ins can help you to make course corrections if your plan isn't working, reward yourself if your plan is working, and serve as a reminder of your daily goals. Keeping your 'eye on the ball' is critically important if you're trying to keep a resolution, fulfill a dream, achieve a goal.  If you don't keep your resolution front and center, it's easy to let days and weeks go by without any activity.  No activity means 'no results' and that's 'no good'!

So how to get results?  Dare to dream, make a commitment (decide), define your resolution, develop a plan, and do it daily.  A good plan consists of long, medium and short range strategies/goals, so it's useful to review your progress at the end of each quarter (in addition to daily and weekly reviews).  Frequent assessments help you to assess how you did, brainstorm your next set of long and short range goals, and updated your plan accordingly.  Frequent check-ins keep you accountable!

If you're keeping a Daily Resolution Diary tracking progress with your plan, timelines, and milestones is a zip.  Writing things down in a journal - a blog, leather bound journal, spiral notebook, whatever works for you - is a key component of success, and another way to maintain accountability!  Given the hectic pace of daily life, If you don't write things down, how can you remember what you've done, or haven't done?  Another key component of success is taking one small step at a time, one day at a time - a journal and daily/weekly check-ins help to track all that activity.

Making and keeping resolutions doesn't have to to be hard.  It's basic common sense.  You just need strong desire, commitment, patience, passion, persistence, and a plan - traits and skills you probably already possess!

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 24, 2007
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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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Work Hard To Achieve! - Day 82

TGIF . . . are you ready for the weekend?  Are you ready to put in some quality time on your resolution, dream, goal this weekend?  It's sunny and warm, new buds are bursting out all over, it's hard not to be inspired.  Do something for you this weekend - make time for your resolution, do a nice long check-in to see how you're doing, do some brainstorming, update your plan - and above all enjoy the journey! 

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.  But without it we go nowhere."  Carl Sagan

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.  It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you had everything to do, and you've done it."  Margaret Thatcher

"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us.  NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us."  Richard Bach, One

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 23, 2007
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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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Get Moving! - Day 81

No more excuses!  If you have a resolution, dream, goal that has been languishing on the backburner throughout the dark cold months of winter, it's time to stop procrastinating and move it to the front burner and light the flame of inspiration. Spring is here, and with that in mind, some words of encouragement to get you thinking and moving!

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day."  E. B. White

''I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."  Jonathan Winters

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."  Nietzsche

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 22, 2007
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"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day."  E. B. White

''I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."  Jonathan Winters

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."  Nietzsche

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Celebrate Spring! - Day 80

It's finally here - the first day of Spring!  Are you ready to celebate this glorious new season?  Are you ready to tear off those heavy sweaters, hit the baseball stadium, plant some roses, take a nice long walk in the woods, lay in the grass staring up at the sky? Are you ready?  It's hard to avoid being optimistic when the sun is shining full-time, the blooms are popping all around, and more folks are wearing smiles with the onset of warmer temperatures.

I love the first day of Spring as much as I love the first day of the New Year on January 1.  I view both days as opportunities - a fresh start, a new chapter, a clean page on which I will write my story.  Spring is an opportunity for me to spend more time outside in my garden.  It's an opportunity to work out more, to get more exercise - it's so much easier to put in 30-60 minutes of work out time, when the options expand (swimming, tennis, biking, gardening, walking vs. my indoor bike and Total Gym during the winter months).  I'm looking forward to putting in more writing time on my resolution book.  So much to look forward to.  Do I sound intoxicated by Spring?  Maybe I am.

Are you ready?  You can use Springtime as a launching pad for your own resolutions, dreams and goals.  If you're already working hard to achieve your resolution, Spring should give you a new shot of enthusiasm, a sunnier outlook, more energy, a more positive attitude.  Use the new energy to breath some life into your resolution.  If you're ready, all it takes is five simple steps to get you going in the right direction:

1. Dare to Dream: Open your mind to the possibility that you can achieve your fondest dream.
2. Decide:  Make a decision to go for it, starting today.
3. Define:  In one sentence, specify what you plan to achieve in a way that you can attach deadlines, timelines, make course corrections, and reward yourself (For instance, I will work out daily for 30-miutes by walking, biking, swimming, stretching, playing tennis, working out with weights, gardening, or doing Yoga!).
4. Develop A Plan:  Do you homwork; determine all the many large steps that it will take to achieve your resolution, then break those steps down into smaller steps that are achieveable one small step at a time, one day at a time.
5. Do It Daily:  Set aside 20-30 minutes each and every day for you and your resolution, your dream, your goal!

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 21, 2007
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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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Savor Spring - Day 79

One more day until the first day of Spring!  In anticipation of all the good things to come in April, May, June, I give you these warm words of inspiration for the days ahead .  .  .

"All through the long winter, I dream of my garden.  On the first day of spring I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth.  I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar."   Helen Hayes

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."  Margaret Atwood

"Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's Party!""  Robin Williams

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 20, 2007
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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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Greet Spring With Optimism! - Day 78

The first day of Spring is just two days away - March 21st!  I find myself counting down each year - I love the start of as much as the start of a new year on January 1.  It's a wonderful opportunity to tackle those dreams and resolutions with passion and enthusaism.  With that in mind, a few optimistic thoughts for the start of a new day, a new week!

"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a concious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."  May Sarton

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak.  But their echoes are truly endless."  Mother Theresa

"Earth's crammed with heaven." Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."  Helen Keller

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 19, 2007
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"Kind words can be short and easy to speak.  But their echoes are truly endless."  Mother Theresa

"Earth's crammed with heaven." Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."  Helen Keller

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Go For It! - Day 77

I Resolve To - Go For It!  So what in the world does that mean?  You hear it all the time, 'go for it'. I preach it here, 'go for it'. To me, it means, you're not going to give in to the 'Someday, Someday, Someday Syndrome.  You're not going to keep waiting for tomorrow to pursue your heartfelt dreams.

'Go For It' means that you will:

1. Dare To Dream:  Open your mind to the possibility that you can and will achieve your fondest dreams.  You will think outside the box and not give in to the same old, tired way of doing things.
2. Decide:  Resolve, decide firmly, wth great determination to achieve youre dream (i.e. turn your dream into a resolution that works for you).
3. Define:   Specify exactly what you want to achieve in one sentence, such as - I will exercise for 30-minutes each day by walking, running, lifting weights, stretching, swimming, playing tennis, doing Yoga, playing golf . . . and so on (what a great variety of choices to keep you going!).
4. Develop A Plan:  Do your homework to determine all the many steps that are necessary to achieve your dream (i.e. turn your dream into a resolution and turn that resolution into goals - small daily steps).
5. Do It Daily:  One resolution, one day at a time, for one year - until it's a 'Lifetime Resolution'!

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions! and enjoys te journey.  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 18, 2007
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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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions! and enjoys te journey.  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Keep It Simple! - Day 76

I Resolve to 'keep it simple'.  When pursuing New Year resolutions, I firmly believe more folks would succeed if they kept things simple and didn't make the whole thing so hard.  Of course, some folks make a list of resolutions on January 1, knowing they won't act on them.  Other folks start out strong, then sputter, while others struggle for months, then finally give up. 

It just doesn't have to be so hard, and there are plenty of people who 'do' find a key secret to success:  it's within each one of us and our dreams - it's within our willingness and courage to pursue those dreams.

I spend a lot of time reading what folks post about their New Year resolutions.  Yesterday I read a post by a woman whose resolution is to 'make an entire outfit' for herself this year, so she can become a better seamstress and knitter, among other things.  Her resolution, what and how she wrote about it really resonated with me, and I'd bet money she will proudly be wearing her new outfit by the time New Year's day rolls around next year. 

That seamstress and her resolution has many of the ingredients for resolution success that I preach about:  one resolution about which you have great interest, passion and commitment;  one resolution, defined specifically in one sentence;  one resolution around which you can build a plan and timelines, so you can track progress, make course corrections and reward yourself for your wins; and above all, one resolution that you enjoy and will have fun pursuing.  Her resolution makes her a 'resolutionista' - my word for someone who keeps New Year's resolutions and has a great time doing it!  Good for her.

You can do it too!  The first day of Spring is just four days away - it arrives on Tuesday, March 21 this year.  Maybe it's time to stop procrastinating.  Maybe it's time to stop making things so hard.  Use the sunshine, warm temperatures and new blooms as a launching pad for you and your resolution, your dream.

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 17, 2007
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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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Enjoy! - Day 75

TGIF, yes that wonderful day of the week.  Time to take a deep breath, long sigh of relief.  Hopefully you'll have some time this weekend for you, your resolution, your dream.  Maybe you've been working so hard, you just need to take a break, that's okay too.  When you make Lifetime Resolutions, it tends to take some of the pressure off because you have those dreams with you, as part of you, for life.  With that in mind, some inspiring words for you and your weekend.

"Vitality!  That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?   Katherine Hepburn

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."   Beverly Sills

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up, for that is just the place and the time that the tide will turn."  Harriet Beecher Stowe

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 16, 2007
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"Vitality!  That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?   Katherine Hepburn

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."   Beverly Sills

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up, for that is just the place and the time that the tide will turn."  Harriet Beecher Stowe

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Believe In Myself! - Day 74

Yes you can and will fulfill your dream, keep your resolution, and achieve your goal!  To succeed, its so important to believe in yourself and your dreams.  If you believe in yourself and have faith that you will succeed, that is often half the battle.  Instead of worrying about failing, or dwelling on past failures, move past your fear and focus on the tasks at hand.  Stop questioning whether you have what it takes!  You do have what it takes. 

Take one small step, one day at a time, and focus on that one thing.  Those steps are the building blocks that will enable you to attain your heart's desire.  One step at a time, one building block after another will provide you with momentum and confidence.  Remember, success breeds success if you just give yourself a chance.

Yes, you need to do your homework, learn the many things that are necessary to fulfill your dream - and yes, you need to build a plan that will take you from start to finish - but you don't have to move mountains overnight.  Just take it one small 'pebble' at a time.  So, stop worrying.  Instead focus all your 'positive' energy on taking that next step . . . be flexible and determined.  Have patience, passion, persistence, and perseverence.  Have faith and believe in yourself. You CAN do it!!

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 15, 2007
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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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Enjoy The Journey! - Day 73

The first day of Spring is almost here - just a week away, Tuesday, March 21.  Whether you're working hard on your 2007 resolution, or are thinking about 'starting' to work on a resolution with the start of Spring, keep your chin up.  Soon Mother Nature will infuse us with new renewed energy from all her treasures - green growth, cherry blossoms, baby bunnies, sunny days, and on and on.  To get you through, between now and then, I offer some sunny thoughts.

There is a fountain of youth:  it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love.  When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age."    Sophia Loren

"It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise."  Nancy Thayer

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come."  Joan Baez

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.  You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.''   Lucille Ball

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 14, 2007
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"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.  You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.''   Lucille Ball

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Follow A Simple Formula For Success - Day 72

Do yourself a favor.  If you have a dream, turn it into a resolution - make a firm promise to yourself today to make that resolution a reality.  In turn, you can make your resolution a reality by turning it  into daily goals -small daily steps, taken one at a time, one day at a time. 

Dream + Resolution + Goals = Achievement!  A simple, common sense formula for success . . .

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions and enjoys doing it!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 13, 2007
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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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions and enjoys doing it!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Go For It! - Day 71

New day, new week, new opportunities!  Hope you're working hard to achieve your resolution, your dream!  Some inspiring thoughts to get you going!

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."  Lauren Bacall

"If one is lucky a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."  Maya Angelou

"If you think you can, you can.  And if you think you can't, you're right.''  Mary Kay Ash

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."  George Eliot

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 12, 2007
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"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."  Lauren Bacall

"If one is lucky a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."  Maya Angelou

"If you think you can, you can.  And if you think you can't, you're right.''  Mary Kay Ash

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."  George Eliot

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Do Something Nice For Me This Weekend! - Day 68

You've worked hard all week, it's okay to take a break and maybe even do something nice for yourself this weekend!  Just as you should reward yourself for hard won victories when working toward resolutions, dreams and goals - you should reward yourself for all your hard work, both at work and at home!  Pat yourself on the back!  Enjoy your weekend . . . and to get you going in the right direction, some words of inspiration . . .

"Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary."  Magdalen Nabb

"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."    Emily Bronte

"A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.  So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts."  Henry David Thoreau

"A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.  So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts."  Henry David Thoreau

"What will be will be."  Italian Proverb

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 9, 2007
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"Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary."  Magdalen Nabb

"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."    Emily Bronte

"A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.  So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts."  Henry David Thoreau

"A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.  So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts."  Henry David Thoreau

"What will be will be."  Italian Proverb

"A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.  So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts."  Henry David Thoreau

"A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.  So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts."  Henry David Thoreau

"What will be will be."  Italian Proverb

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Keep One Simple Thougt In Mind - Day 67

Just one simple thought for the day . . .

"The act of pursuing and achieving your dream can and will help you to find fulfillment in your life.  I'm not going to predict it's going to change your life forever, or be the best year you've ever had.  Without question, you're going to hit bumps in the road, we all do, that's life.  But each and every time you put your heart and soul into something you love, you will learn something, reap rewards, and find personal fullfilment."  Kim M. Simpson - December 14, 2006

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!

Need More Inspiration?  Wear Your Resolution!  Make Every Day New Year's Day.  Make Every Day Count.  Visit my resolution shop by clicking this link:  http://www.cafepress.com/iresolveto

Kim M. Simpson - March 8, 2007
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I Resolve To™ . . . Strive To Be Happy! - Day 66

Happiness is definitely a goal worth striving for!  I find a great deal of happiness working toward my resolutions, dreams and goals because I enjoy them and the journey.  I hope you're able to find some enjoyment in your dreams and resolutions this week.  Some enouraging words to help you along the journey . . .

''One can never consent to creep when one feels and impulse to soar."   Helen Keller

''Yesterday I dared to struggle.  Today I dare to win."    Bernadette Devlin

''Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.  Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
Pamela Vaull Starr

''The mere sense of living is joy enough."   Emily Dickinson

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 7, 2007
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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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Keep It Simple Today! - Day 65

Just one simple thought for the day . . .

Achieving dreams, resolutions and goals is actually a series of steps - each one a leap of faith.  If you can open your mind, believe in yourself and your ability to achieve your dream it's time to take the next step:  Decide.  Resolve, after all is to decide firmly with great determination.  There is no time better than the present to make that leap of faith.  The act of pursuing and achieving your dream can and will help you to find fulfillment in your life."  Kim M. Simpson

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!

Need More Inspiration?  Wear Your Resolution!  Make Every Day New Year's Day.  Make Every Day Count.  Visit my resolution shop by clicking this link:  http://www.cafepress.com/iresolveto

Kim M. Simpson - March 6, 2007
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I Resolve To™ . . . Inspiration - Day 64

Inspiration for the start of a new week.  I hope you're keeping your resolutions, dreams and goals front and center!  Enjoy . . .

"Carpe diem!  Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have.  It is later than you think."  Horace - Ancient Roman Poet (65 BC - 8 BC)

"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."  Anna Quindlen - American Journalist

"Things do not change; we change."  Henry David Thoreau

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 5, 2007
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"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."  Anna Quindlen - American Journalist

"Things do not change; we change."  Henry David Thoreau

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

I Resolve To™ . . . Get Going! - Day 63

It's never too late to make and keep a New Year Resolution, fulfill a dream, achieve a goal!  In the next couple of weeks we're going to get a couple big shots of new energy - Daylight Savings Time happens early on Sunday, March 11, and the first day of Spring is just around the corner on Wesnesday, March 21.  Why not use the added daylight, sunshine, Spring temperatures, and blossoming flowers to fuel your passions?

Personally I love New Year's Day, the first day of Spring and my birthday - they're all days of renewal, days in which I can take stock, and reaffirm the promises I make to myself to pursue my resolutions, dreams and goals.  If you're sitting on the fence - you have a dream, but just can't seem to take the leap - maybe it's time to just 'go for it'.

It all starts and ends with you.  Pull a dream off the list of the 100 things you would love to do, see learn, achieve in this lifetime:  A Lifetime Dream that you would love to keep with you permanently -a dream about which you have great passion, interest and commitment.  Then turn that Lifetime Dream into a Lifetime Resolution.  If you want to eliminate the Someday, Someday, Someday Syndrom, consider my simple Five-Step System For Resolution Success.  Become a Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions.

The First Step is to Dare To Dream: Identify the dream you want to pursue right now today, such as daily exercise, getting organized, scrapbooking your family photos, learning to draw, writing a book, learning gourmet cooking . . . the list is endless!  It's unique just like you.

The Second Step is to Decide:  Turn that dream into reality.  Decide firmly to act today and do it!

The Third Step is to Define:  Make a specific, well defined resolution such as, 'I resolve to exercise each day for 30-minutes by walking, biking, swimming, playing tennis, stretching, and doing Yoga. 

The Fourth Step is to Develop A Plan:  Do your homework and identify all the many things that you need to do to keep your resolution, fulfill your dream - turn these things into your 'goals'.  Then break those goals down into small, manageable steps that you can take one at a time, one day at a time.  You can build daily and weekly action plans that include the small steps that will enable you to fullfill your goals.  Include deadlines, timelines and milestones so you can assess your progress, make course corrections and reward yourself!

The Fifth Step is to Do It Daily:  Work hard to set aside time - 20, 30, 60 minutes - each day or every other day to pursue your dream, your resolution, your goal.  Think of it as achieving one resolution, one small step at at time.

Bottom Line, 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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista, someone who keeps resolutions!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 4, 2007
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I Resolve To™ . . . Listen Closely!

"I think we all have a little voice inside us tha will guide us.  It may be God, I don't know.  But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do."  Christopher Reeve

"I think we all have a little voice inside us tha will guide us.  It may be God, I don't know.  But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do."  Christopher Reeve

I Resolve To™ . . . Be A Resolutionista! - Day 62

Resolutionista!!  I love the sound of that word.  It packs all the power and punch of 'resolve' - to decide firmly - with a happy twist.  Resolution-ISTA!  I looked in a few dictonaries and found 'resolutionist' - defined as someone who makes resolutions - but I didn't find resolutionista.  So I'm coining it, defining it  myself today.  Resolutionista is someone who makes and 'keeps' resolutions.  The operative word is 'KEEP'.

Maybe it's time to celebrate our 'wins'.  At Day 62 of 2007, we're hearing a lot about people who are, or have given up on their New Year resolutions.  For instance, I've seen numerous news articles about gyms that are emptying - all those folks who were gun-ho on January 2, are now giving up on their resolutions to exercise, diet, get fit and healthy.  It leaves a lot more space, and less time to wait for equipment, for those folks who exercise faithfully 12 months out of the year, but it's not a very positive result for those who 'gave up'.

While it's true that a lot of people may have given up, I also read plenty of blog posts from people who are making time to review the status of their 2007 resolutions, and are now making new plans, deadlines and course corrections.  That's the good news, and I'd rather dwell on that!  I subscribe to Google alerts for New Year Resolutions, so I see a lot of blog posts.  It's interesting to read the status reports.  I leave a lot of my own posts with words of encouragement for these folks.  I may be a stranger to them, but kind words of encouragment can't hurt, and may even help someone along on a tough day.

Bottom-line:  it's never too late to be a Resolutionista!  If your resolution is to exercise, build a plan to do it everyday for 20-30-minutes, or every other day for a half hour - do whatever you can fit into your schedule.  You may not end up with a perfect record at the end of 2007 - we're so often Overtaken By Events - but if you end up with any record at all, your're better off than if you don't try!  Exercising for 175 days for 20-minutes is better than no exercise at all!  What's more, if you keep it up through 2007, your resolution could become a Lifetime Resolution - a resolution or dream that you maintain permanently in your life year after year.  You would become the ultimate Resolutionista!

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. Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Resolution!  Be A Resolutionista!  Let's Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 3, 2007
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I Resolve To™ . . . Something Positive For The Weekend! - Day 61

Here's to a wonderful, wonderful weekend.  I hope you find quality time to spend working on your resolution, your dream this weekend.  Here are a few thoughts to lend some inspiration . . .

"I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned."  Carol Burnett

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."  Vince Lombardi

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"  Robert Browning

"Every tomorrow has two handles.  We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."   Henry Ward Beecher

Remember:  I Resolve To Achieve My New Year Resolutions, One Resolution, One Day At A Time For One Year.  It's your choice.  Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Dream, A Lifetime Resolution!  Turn your resolution into reality.  Do it today.  Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 2, 2007
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I Resolve To™ . . . Resolve! - Day 60

We're two months into 2007 - are you sticking with your 'resolve' to keep your New Year Resolution, fullfill your dream, achieve your goal?  The weekend is just two days away, make some preparations now to give yourself some 'quality time' with your resolution on Saturday or Sunday.   We're two months into the year with 10 months to go - 306 days left until New Year's Day.  That means 306 more opportunities to take one (or more) smalls steps each and every day toward achieving your resolution, dream, goal.

While so many people have given up on their resolutions by now, don't be one of them!  Resolve, be determined to pursue your resolution with a passion- at the end of the year you will find that you have reaped wonderful rewards along the way.  Hang in there, Spring is just three weeks away.  If you're stuck indoors this weekend, pick a cozy, warm spot to do a weekly check-in.  Page through your journal, or your blog posts, and ask your self some hard questions:

1. What have I achieved in the first 60 days of 2007 - have I made progress?  Have I tried to work on my resolution everyday, or a few days each week?
2. Did I do my homework to learn all the many steps that are necessary to achieve my resolution, and turn those steps into action plans (my short-range and long-range strategies for success, that consist of my targeted goals, and the small steps necessary to achieve those goals)?
3. Have I reviewed my progress daily, or if not daily, then weekly to determine what is working, and what's not working so I can build on successes, or make course corrections.
4. Have I rewarded myself for hard won victories - just showing up each day is a victory, give yourself some credit.
5. Have I tried to remain positive, even when I'm Overtaken By Events (OBE)?  Have I reminded myself that I can get back on track with my resolution once life calms down?
6. Am I having fun?  Am I enjoying the journey?  This is my dream afterall - something about which I have great passion and interest, something that I want to turn into a Lifetime Dream, a LifeTime Resolution.

As we end the first 60 days of this wonderful journey it's time to re-energize, ignite that enthusiasm, get motivated, and re-charge that 'resolve'.  Remind yourself 'why' your resolution is so imortant to you.  At this point in the journey, don't fall victim to the 'Someday, Someday, Someday Syndrome . . . that only leads to regrets, not for what you've done, but for what you haven't done.

Remember:  I Resolve To Achieve My New Year Resolutions, One Resolution, One Day At A Time For One Year.  It's your choice.  Make your resolution a permanent Lifetime Dream, A Lifetime Resolution!  Turn your resolution into reality.  Do it today.  Go for it!

Kim M. Simpson - March 1, 2007
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