“We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Greetings.

In my last entry I made a public commitment to blogging Monday thru Friday for an entire year.  Why did I do this?
1) When I commit in public I am more likely to take the action.  I have more motivation to fulfill my promises to others than I have to fulfill my promises to myself.  (This is a very common response.  At least initially, it is easier to use this than to change this.)
2) I want to get a number of books published – books that I have been working on for years.  By writing every day, I intend to get these finished.
3) I want to instill the habit of writing everyday.  Some days I may feel like it.  Some days I may not.  However I feel, however easy or hard writing may be that day, I intend to show up and do my best.  This will be a great change for me.
4) I have received so many benefits from blogging already, even with my fitful writing efforts.  New clients, speaking engagements, much greater credibility – all of these and more have come about because I have blogged.  If I received so many rewards with a little blogging, how much more might I expect with a lot of blogging?
5) A Monday thru Friday focus on blogging will also naturally drive me to complete the other projects in my business growth plans.  My own products for sale, affiliate sales, newsletter releases, website enhancement – all of these will be driven and in some ways demanded by regular blogging.

So that is the explanation of the blogging commitment.  I also initially decided to set a goal, a resolution, in 5 categories of my life.  Those categories are:

My Five Commitments / Categories for 2009
Health
Family
Business
Finances
Fun

I will share more about these in later entries.  For now, for you, if you could focus on and create one great goal in each of those five areas for yourself, what would those goals be?

Till next time…Jack

“Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.” ~Author Unknown