2018!

It’s finally here, and it’s full of new and exciting promise.  Many people are feeling that stomach roll as they mull over their resolutions for this new year, and several people have already sheepishly admitted that they know they will not follow through with the resolution(s) they so passionately proclaimed not so long ago.  This might be due to having set too high of expectations, or perhaps due to lack of planning/scheduling.  Either way, it doesn't feel good to give up on anything; does it?  If you haven’t ditched efforts on yours yet, well, don’t.  Think about steps you’ll need to take to achieve progress toward the peak of accomplishment.  Write them down and keep them in mind at all times—eyes on the prize.  Each time we reach a mini-milestone, so-to-speak, we’ll get out the pretty, scented new pens we bought and rainbow them out 😃

This is exciting!  This is so much better than that pepto-bismol-type dread swarming around in the gut, whispering insidiously, “another failure not to write home about.”  We’ll keep going team, getting exhuberant well over Richard Simmons’ level; ohhoho; yes; I went there, and we’re kicking up the motivation several notches higher this time with obvious physical effort.  Let me see your “Heck yes; ‘I did it!’” face.  You’re going to need to practice it anyway for the big after party, and besides, it feels good; doesn’t it?  You made this or these resolution(s) because you want some thing really important to you; right?  Do you really and truly want it?  I know I do.  The thing that separates us from millions of quitters is the one active ingredient most often overlooked, making a “resolute” determination into a rash promise instead.  You really want this, right?  Then get out your game plan and some pens and markers of some sort.  Make a treaure map.  Lots of people try things; this thing deserves concentrated ideas mixed with resolute action.  It’s been said that life is lonely at the top, a steep Matterhorn mountain fraught with broken trailmarkers and weary onlookers.  I really can’t imagine that’s possible and it’s time to find out.  Are you ready?  Good; Let’s go get it.