“Time is an equal opportunity employer.  Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day.  Rich people can’t buy more hours.  Scientists can’t invent new minutes.  And you can’t save time to spend it on another day.  Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving.  No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”  ~Denis Waitely

With the New Year approaching we all have a tendency to look back at the previous year and think about all the “should have-could have’s.” Instead look back at all the positive things you accomplished in the past. Then make a decision to create habits for all the things you want to accomplish this upcoming year. Notice I did not say a “resolution” Resolutions are easily and often forgotten within the first month of the New Year. Instead make a choice to succeed this year and put the systems, tools and habits in place to achieve the goals you set whether they are personal or professional. You can create a life and business you love by first simply writing down the things you want to accomplish. Seeing them on paper makes them more real. Then write next to each one why you want it and what it would mean to if you did or did not accomplish that objective. This step allows you to find out which are the most important to you. Choose the most important objective and write what actions, tools or information you will need to accomplish it. Put those actions into your calendar. Be faithful to those actions in your calendar as you would a listing appointment. Once you have completed the first objective, follow the same steps with the next important and so on.  By the end of next year you will be happy with your results or determined to follow this procedure even more faithfully. Just don’t look back with regret.