"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

- Albert Einstein


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Every day starts a new year!

Most of us use January 1st as the mark of a new year, and we tend to put all efforts to change, improve, or better our lives on hold until that day arrives. When it does arrive, we inundate ourselves with "New Year's resolutions" that most likely will be a distant memory by the time the calendar turns to February.

• "I am going to lose weight."
• "I am going to start working out."
• "I am going to start my own business."
• "I am going to end a destructive relationship."
• "I am going to change careers."
• "I am going to ..."

Instead of falling victim to the same old trap, begin looking at every day as the start of a new year - because technically, it is. Don't wait for an external event to happen before you make an internal change. Decide now what you want to do, who you want to be, and how you want to accomplish it.

Do you have written goals? If you don't, how do you ever expect to accomplish them? There is an old saying, "you can't hit a target you can't see." If you don't write down your goals, you are telling yourself that they really aren't that important. Subsequently, if you don't achieve those goals, you can always rationalize by saying "I really wasn't trying that hard...it wasn't that big of a deal. I mean, I didn't even write it down."

Take responsibility for your happiness. Buy an inexpensive notebook and set aside some time to brainstorm. Reflect on who you are now, and who you want to be three, six, and twelve months from now. Write down your goals, your desires, your dreams. And once you write them down, take action. Do something, no matter how small, to move you towards your goals. Simply put - if you don't take the first step, you will never move from where you are.

Reflect, document, and take action. Every day starts a new year, and self-improvement is an ongoing process - not a "once-a-year" event.


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"The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile."

- Bruce Barton


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"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

- Vincent van Gogh


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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

- Anne Bradstreet


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"Sadly, as far as I’ve learned, we can do nothing to alter death; it’s going to happen. But life? We can shape and change the f*@k out of life!"

- Kevin Smith


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Something free, fun, and motivational for the weekend - Five Rules For Life!

This site has been going strong for a few years, and by my count there are over 1000 rules by 200+ people at this point. They will be posting some of the most popular on twitter in 2011, so if you have a twitter account you should follow them.

I contributed my Five Rules a while back, and you can read them here.

You can easily spend hours on this sight, and it is a good one to share with family and friends.

Five Rules For Life main site.

"The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing."

- Walt Disney


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"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."

- Helen Keller


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"No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today."

- Brendan Francis


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"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

- John Lennon


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"Make your own dream.

That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story, that's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.

There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you."

- John Lennon


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"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."

— John Lennon


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"Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy."

- Milton Erickson


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"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results."

- Jack Dixon


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"The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be."

- Shakti Gawain


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