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Only 8 to 12% of us actually are successful with our New Year's Resolutions.  I want to share with you how you can make your 2014 New Year's Resolutions a reality.  We need to keep things simple and enjoy the process.  There are six simple steps in achieving success with your resolution. 1.  "Change the Name" - Move away from calling your 2014 goal a "resolution" .  Make it a name that is unique for you.  The name should help motivate you to move forward with your goal.  You may want to call it your Amazing Adventure, your Cause, your New Life Adventure  .....whatever motivates you.  Creating a "resolution" utilizing the word "resolution" can possibly set you up for failure.  With having not accomplished your "resolutions" in prior years, you may subconsciously associate "resolution" with lack of success.  Make your resolution fun and personalize it!  2. "Define your Ultimate Purpose" - You need t...

The hype! The build up!  The event! And.....  it is still only a 24 hour day.  The expectations and excitement of the big event - Christmas - can seem like a let down the day after.  Many go back to work the next day, have the joy of cleaning up, or returning gifts.   Then there is the fact you may have spent hours or even days decorating for this event only to see that you now have to put it away.  Depression or relief?  For this one event of the year many of us put in so much energy that it literally wears us out!  The big question for you is, "What Now?"  We build up so much energy into the holiday, that we may experience a huge let down.  We changed our rhythm in life and set ourselves on a pace of pure excitement and expectations.  Maybe we had family reunions with members of our family we haven't seen for a long time.  The joy of seeing each other and spending time was so wonderful or overwhelming.  It may hav...

The holidays are to be times of great joy and happiness, but for many they become a time of dread and even despair. Why is it that we find ourselves so stressed out during these times of year?  In the school setting we find an unique situation concerning students.  Many students who have "troubled" lives or experiences, do not like the holidays.  As vacations approach, these students become very agitated and disruptive.  Speaking with these students, I find that they do not want to be "stuck" at home and away from the one place they can find some aspect of peace.  They may not excel in school and even complain, but they actually find school to be a place of stability and support.  There are many students who "dread" summer vacation and actually seek ways to find themselves in summer school. Even some adults would rather work and be busy instead of facing the realities of the holidays.  Ba Humbug!   Why is it that we create...

Do you ever find that your days and weeks seem to get overwhelming?  Are you finding yourself feeling sluggish and underwhelmed?  How would you like to have 5 simple steps to make each day a positive event and full of joy?  The pressures of work, the holidays and life in general can seem daunting at times and we find ourselves in the negative end of the battery of life.  Lets move to the positive end of the battery! I want to truly help and created this special 5 step process all of us to follow.  The steps are simple and don't take much time at all.  In order to thank you for visiting this blog and to help you find joy in your day, I have a gift for you.  It is a 5 day challenge using 5 Simple Steps that will help you experience increased happiness at work and in life!  It really works.  These steps will help support you in achieving days full of happiness and new positive adventures.  Please visit my website at www.thetaj...

Through my various adventures in life, I just wrote on this topic on another blog www.savinglindsaylohanandkristenstewart.com .  Thought I would share excerpts of the other blog and apply it to your career and life.  I love the thought that one's perception of us is their reality.  Do you find this to be true?  Look at your social and work life.  Where do you see those times when others' reality of you was in fact untrue?  Why did this occur?  How is it affecting your career and your life? Individual's assumptions and our actions create perceptions.  These perceptions then become reality for the individuals who created the assumptions in the first place. You are faced with cameras throughout each day just as celebrities are via the "paparazzi".  The cameras are in the forms of others' eyes and perceptions they are creating for you, thus their realities of you.  Look at your past and see those moments when you were frustr...

Look at your life up to this point.  Where are you in life at this moment?  Where you are today is in fact determined by what you have done in the past.  You have worked to get yourself to this point in life through your prior decisions.  Think about your interviews that you have had.  One central question is to tell them a little about yourself.  You end up telling them what you have done, where you have been and why you are interviewing for the position.  Look at your life.  Ask yourself to tell yourself a little about yourself.  You are basically interviewing for the next chapter in your life.  Our life can be looked at as one big interview process.  We are constantly evaluating ourselves, working through our current situations and seeking answers in order to move forward.  We put ourselves in situations and then make decisions just like we answer situational questions in interviews.  Our life is in actuality one inte...

This week the analysis of the two quotes presented last week: "Judge less and live more!" "I don't believe in failure, only the lack of action." The two quotes are really quite simply pointing in the same direction.  How much time do you spend focused on what is going on around you instead of your dream, your career, your life?  We tend to judge what is going on around us instead of focusing on what we are seeking.  You have heard it before that if you believe you can achieve anything, you will achieve it.  Well, stop for a second and see what you have achieved.  We need to break down the quotes and see how they in fact reflect the reality of success. Energy is the key component to everything you do.  It takes energy to think, eat, run, scream, write, use the computer, breath, to do anything.  When we spend our time "judging" others, we are expending energy that could be used to help us achieve our goals.  Why spend energy focusing on ...