**New Year Resolutions EXPOSED**

My goal is to earn 5,000 by September so i have some spending money for college!

Any donations are welcome

Eric

1. Become Widely Known as "The Guru Mom"
2. Help at least 2 people become financially independent.
3. Get 600 paid members to my membership website.
4. Earn over $150,000
5. Lose 30 pounds - The internet work is not kind to my hips..
6. Keep my 4.0 GPA in College

I actually wrote an article on how to keep your New Years Resoloutions too! Ill post it.

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Every year people make resolutions that they fail to keep. Intentions start good but generally fail, especially if results are not obtained as fast as expected. Would you like to be one of the few that manages to keep your resolution?

First of all it does not matter if you need to lose weight, start a business, help your kids do better in school, or learn a new language. What you need is a plan to make it happen, just saying you want to do it is not enough to make it happen. Sit down and write out your goal and several things you need in order to obtain your goal.

Now that you have your goal and you know what you need, you need to break that big goal down into smaller goals. Say you want to start a successful online business, it would be nice to skip right to the end right? But of course since you cant a first goal might be to research the types of online businesses you could do. Then the next goal might be to hire a website designer, or to create a website yourself, and so on. Mini goals are much easier to obtain and will help you keep up your enthusiasm.

Set deadlines for your goal. Keep your deadlines realistic. If you want to lose 30 pounds you can not typically do that in only a month. However if you set the goal to be 30 pounds lighter in 3-6 months, you now have a realistic goal you can reach. Your mini goals here might be 5-10 pounds lighter each month. If you get there faster then great, but at least this way you won't be disappointed if you give yourself a little more time. You do need a deadline to help motivate you to work at your goal.

You may find it is helpful to write your goals down as well. Try using a calendar to mark your self imposed deadlines on and keep the calendar where you will see it daily. Or you could set up reminders with an e-mail reminder service to give yourself the feeling of your goal being more important than just a thought you had considered doing. Another good way is to write your goals down in a journal or day planner that you keep up to date.