Happy New Year!

Here’s to a wonderful 2010!  Best wishes to all of you for a Happy New Year. Today, I will celebrate the new year with a couple of traditions.  As I was raised in the South, I eat black-eyed peas and collard greens on New Year’s Day.  This custom is supposed to be good luck, and [...]

Create A New Year’s Resolutions Retreat

This week, we have talked a lot about New Year’s resolutions, goal-setting, tools, and strategies. As we move into the promise of a new year, I hope you will embrace all the wonderful possibilities that goal-setting presents to you, whether you choose to make an exhaustive inventory of your most heart-felt desires, or whether you [...]

Personal Goal-Setting for the New Year: One Goal Approach

I have talked a lot about goals this week.  The process of self-examination and personal goal-setting is a complicated and time-consuming process, albeit a worthwhile one.  There is, however, an alternative to writing resolutions and setting personal goals that is much simpler.  I call it the One Goal Approach.  And this is a good approach [...]

How to Set Personal Goals and New Year’s Resolutions

Personal goal-setting can change your life!  If you think of personal goal-setting as a fun and creative process, it can take some of the anxiety out of it.  Here are some tips that have worked for me. 1. Begin by telling yourself that the new year will be the best year of your life. Going [...]

Ready-Made Resolutions for the New Year

Need some help with writing resolutions? It’s often easier to start with a list you can edit, rather than creating your own resolutions from scratch.  Here are some examples of  New Year’s resolutions and supporting activities.  Consider adapting, adding to, and revising these goals as you craft your own resolutions. Personal Development and Recreation Resolutions [...]

Are You Ready to Write Your New Year’s Resolutions?

Is your life just the way you want it?  Are there things you would change to make your life better for yourself, or for your family? Are their things about your life that you would like to preserve? The New Year is a wonderful time to reflect on your life and embrace the power you [...]

Statistics about New Year’s Resolutions

Have you thought about making New Year’s resolutions? If you’ve been avoiding it, you’re not alone.  Did you know that just over half of people make New Year’s resolutions, according to surveys? So, nearly half of all people don’t even bother, although the trend is for more people to make resolutions. According to a Harris [...]