If you’re looking forward to anything – the weekend, Christmas Day, the New Year – you’re not present, you’re not in the here and now – you’re own thoughts are standing in the way of perhaps the most important moment of your life – this moment.  That said, over the next week or so, many traditionally reflect on the year just ending and set some goals for the year ahead.  Kind of strange when you think about it that people would build their plans around a number on the page of a calendar or diary.   But, there you are!   If you are one of those people disposed to getting your head around the coming year (as if you knew what was coming!) then a few suggestions.

Don’t build your plans for 2010 – business or personal – on what happened in 2009.  Chances are, in the year just ending, you’re head was not where it should have been often enough.  So the year just ending, even if you view it as a success, is an unnecessarily low point from which to construct your view of the coming year.  Forget 2009, it’s over.  Sure, if you’ve learned something from it, don’t make the same mistakes again.

The biggest mistake it that you don’t get your head in shape for, not just the year ahead, not even the day ahead, but for all the nows, starting now, that lie ahead.  You can achieve, be, have or create anything your heart desires if you’re head is in the right place.  If it isn’t, this time next year, you’ll be going through the motions all over again.

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