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Some people won’t even make New Year’s resolutions anymore. Not because they don’t want to improve their lives, but because they’ve tried and failed so many times, they’ve given up. It’s not the resolution maker who’s the failure, it’s the methodology we’ve been using to try and bring about radical change in our lives.

It has been rightly said that this world is a mirror. It reflects back our inner/true reality to us. As within, so without. Everything in our life; our job, our economic condition, our dwellings, and the people in our life reflect one or the other aspect of our reality.

2010 is here! There are three powerful tips I’d like to share with you that’ll not only make 2010 your best year ever, but will lay the essential groundwork for abundance and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams for you and your loved ones in the years to come.

I’m not that great at keeping New Year’s resolutions, but this one is going to stick – I promise. I resolve to wipe the F word “fair” from my vocabulary, from my thinking, from my emotions.

Given the current economic condition in the US, 2010 could become the year that Americans have to look at their lives in a totally new way. If they stay focused upon their finances, like the economy they may spend a good part of the year, if not all of it, receding into a depression and not living their lives fully at all.

This sounds like a pretty wild claim but I never have trouble sticking to my New Year resolutions because I never make them! This sounds like a cop out but just think about it for a moment.

My high-school football coach, Coach “Pic” would tell us this every day in his motivational speech as we prepared for the upcoming game. His goal was to get each of us to create a mental picture of what we wanted to do – individually and as a team.

It is that time of the year when I avoid meeting people. Everyone wants to know about your New Year resolutions. This question just forces me to lie through my teeth just so that I remain politically correct and acceptable to my loved ones.

I had always wondered about life. Setting up a toolbox of rules and measures was one of my top priorities until that one (un?)lucky day when I woke up and all the collection of data I was securing was mysteriously gone.

Words are sound symbols that tend to represent standard concepts and images. In other words they are sounds with meanings. Every time you fail to follow through your words you deprive them of their meaning and reduce them to mere sounds. Unfortunately, this not only takes away power from your words but also from you, as your subconscious keeps getting evidence of their emptiness.

It’s that time of the year again – after appearing to plod along for a few lazy months, the present year suddenly starts to show more legs than a caterpillar, and starts slipping away rapidly, almost like the last few grains of sand in an hourglass.

Do you have secret resolutions to share?

Bill Gates and a beggar in the street have 24 hours to them in a day, seven days in a week and 12 months in a year. Still we all feel that we should have some more time to do what we wanted to do. Life many a time just slips between our fingers before [...]

2009 is coming to an end. With the new year approaching, what do you hope to achieve in 2010? Reflecting on the happenings of 2009 gives us a chance to see the lessons that can be learnt, and to make 2010 a better year with added knowledge and wisdom.

At 58, I reflect upon the last four decades of my life’s journey (starting at 18) and marvel at the number of resolutions taken with all earnestness and broken with equal earnestness.

What is the sign of life? If someone is alive, a clear sign is that of the person responding to stimulus. If spoken to, a reply; if smiled at, a smile returned; if hurt, a cry, etc. If a person does not respond, he/she may as well be dead.

Undoubtedly the issue of business ethics is being taken seriously across the world as people realize that the reputation and success of their organization are linked to their values they play out in times of crisis. The need to argue whether business ethics matter is slowly being laid to rest.

I often wonder why people wait till the end of a year to draw up a list of resolutions. Is it a convenient way to continue doing what they have been doing after a brief pause? Does it show a resolve and a firm decision or does it indicate weakness?

Let us see if we are we going to take the coming of the new year as an excuse for revelry. Or, while we have drunk ourselves to the ground, we might even take on the onerous task of some introspection which should result in some resolutions to be made. I fear that the resolve to stick to resolutions lasts only up to the second drink.

The effort is to keep ourselves busy with the inane and avoid real contemplation. Hours are spent in discussions. Each and every aspect is dissected from every angle in great detail. The sentences are pregnant with cares. Along with every issue raised there is an accompanying sentence that rationalizes the happenings so wonderfully that no avenue is left to really put in the effort to do something about it. We look for answers but only those that satisfy our own view or desire will find favour with us. This is hypocrisy in action.

What many people may not know is that to lead a rich and satisfying life we ought to devote about 70% of our time and effort on our long-term developmental goals. We are so caught up in day-to-day issues which in the final analysis turn out to be of small significance to our lives. We lose sight of our main and meaningful goals.

Over the last few days, we have put together what we believe is a fantastic resource bank of articles that will help you achieve your goals and live life meaningfully and joyfully in 2009! This post consolidates all these articles for easier access. Dig in and enjoy. Do forward this wonderful collection to friends and [...]

Ho ho ho ho! The merry season is here. Jingle bells, tinkle bells, plum cake and pudding. Christmas joy and cheer. The yellow brick lane to renewal, resurgence and restitution. Down the lane from Yuletide, is the corner to a big bang new year! One filled with promise, hope and resolutions. Oops !! Where did that slip in from?