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December 1stof every year means that there are only 30 days remaining until the new year begins. It is a perfect time to look forward to the coming year and to reflect over the past months to prepare a plan for your and your family's future. Whether you are single, coupled, married, with or without children, it is advisable to set aside some time to vision for your near and distant future.

The sad reality is: "People spend more time planning their vacations than they do planning a successful life."

Businesses often divide their years into quarters. December 31 is the end of the fourth quarter of the business cycle. Using the business planning model to set your personal, financial and family goals can assist you in setting realistic and manageable goals as well as in tracking progress and evaluating your success. If you fail to vision for your future, then you will likely not set any goals and you will most assuredly not create a plan to achieve the goals and enjoy the vision.

An example of visioning and goal-setting: You purchase a hammer, why because you wanted a hammer, NO! Obviously you plan to drive a nail into a wall. Do you want the nail in the wall? Not really, what you actually want is to hang something, perhaps a picture on the nail. So you bought the hammer to hang the picture? NO!

You purchased the hammer because you gain pleasure from the beauty of the picture. The hammer, the nail, the wall and picture are interrelated in much the same way as an objective, a goal and a dream are connected. At the very root of Visioning and Dreaming is the intent to create a specific experience and feeling for either you or the people who share the dream. No one purchases a hammer for the sake of simply owning a hammer, anymore than you should set a goal just to have a goal.

So, What do you want? How to you want to feel!?!

Personal Goal Setting: Often considered the selfish side of goal-setting, personal planning is important because we tend to be motivated to achieve when we stand to directly benefit and prosper.

"Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here or if not here, hereafter." R.F. Horton

Overcoming Personal Drift begins with setting a destination, a Vision for 2008 and beyond. Take time to Vision for your future, Do it Today! You Will Be Glad That You Did!

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