What is Your Challenge

January is almost over.

Why do most New Year's Resolutions fail?

By now, many New Years resolutions would be thrown out,forgotten, shrugged off. There is always next year.

Why do they fail? Perhaps, because these resolutions are

renewed, recycled, reworded every New Year, without a serious intent of fulfilling them.Without a plan. It sounds

good at the time. Everyone's doing it.These resolutions are empty words. Empty words.

Diet? Lose weight? Cut down on the use of credit cards?

Be more prompt with bill payments? Cut down on shopping.Read more, pursue that elusive dream, whatever that is.Be a better partner, parent, friend and employer or employee.This is a common one:Exercise!. Meditate.

Time is passing by, welcome to 365 days of procrastination.Time to change your strategy. Yes, life entails strategies, planning,action and implementation.

But, build it one step at a time.

Think of the company you work for. They have a business plan, a budget; they make sure they have the resources needed, financial, time and human . They assess their position on schedule. They implement, they act decisively when it matters.

This is their challenge in order to succeed.

So, what is your challenge?

Replace the worn out resolutions that you make year year.The words lost their essence, their meaning long ago.Re-think, plan a strategy to meet your challenge.Make it worth your while.

In a nutshell, are these pursuits challenging ?

Healthy lifestyle:

1. good , healthy nutritious food

2. healthy portions of food

3. balance work, family and recreation, each area gets a time of their own

4. exercise choose what is best for you, a lot to choose from

5. time for yourself- discover, nurture and listen to your inner self

Financial Health

1. budget- a well planned budget

2. outline major expenses for the year- car, house repairs, travel

3. analysis of spending habits- what you need and what you want

4. pay down debt- mortgage, credit cards

5. no matter what age group- a nest egg /retirement/emergency funds

Try a 21-day challenge.

This is not an original idea. But studies showthat if you try your best for 21 days, it eventuallyresults in developing a healthy habit. A forum I'm onhas this 21-day challenge. It turns participants into doers.That's what you need to become- a doer.

Take it one challenge at a time. What is important to you?Diet, weight loss?

Challenge yourself to adopt a healthier eating habit.If fast food and take-out food is your style, there are healthy choices in this area. BUT-is cooking such an aversion and bother that the convenience of take-out or frozen mealsare so tempting. There are benefits to cooking. You can choose,experiment and be creative. It's actually a rewarding endeavour.Surprise yourself.

You love food, eat very healthy portions, you never feel full.More food is good for you. OK- think aboout this seriously.

Vegetables. Yuk. What wants them? Think again. You do!!!Get the idea?

Try this for 21 days. Focus on this challenge,with dedication and enthusiasm.Do it!

If you succeed, your 21 days would act as your spring board to the next challenge .

One challenge at a time, you can build it up to eventuallymeeting all those New Years Resolution you've dropped by the wayside.

E N D

About the writer:

Bonnie Moss writes about spirituality, tools available to allto walk the path. Visit her website , a metaphysical site that offers information on tarot, crystals, aura, journalling and other topics. Recent topics deal with the ligher side of life.http://goldencupcafe.tripod.com

Past, future motivate Spartan wrestling Fox11online.com Berceau's top-ranked team, according to WIWrestling.com, has plenty of motivation to go around. They can look at the walls, with plaques of former team champions and the names of individual champions painted on walls. They can also look across their ... and more »

Help Net Security

Hacktivism Trumps Money as Motivation for Denial-of-Service Attacks PCWorld Arbor also reported that two-thirds of all DDoS attacks globally were motivated by politics, ideology, nihilism or vandalism. In addition, it found that most network operators continue to avoid engagement with law enforcement authorities when they're ... DDoS attacks motivated by politics not criminality, Arbor Networks findsTechworld.com 'Hactivism' now the leading driver of DDoS attacksiTWire The Arbor Networks(R) 7th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report ...MarketWatch (press release) Dark Reading -PR Web (press release) all 52 news articles »

Motivated Zags Face Tough Saint Mary's Team on Thursday Sports and Weather Right Now As if they needed any more motivation to play Saint Mary's this week in Spokane. The Zags welcome the No. 16 Gales to town on Thursday. Saint Mary's is currently on a 12-game win streak, and they have only lost two games all season long. and more »

Chattanooga Times Free Press

UGA quarterback signee Faton Bauta motivated Chattanooga Times Free Press His parents came to the United States from Albania when they were teenagers, so there is that motivation, too. "I don't really know too many Albanian quarterbacks," he said. "Hopefully I'll be the first one." and more »

Motivation camp on bird water held E-Pao.net "We've spotted these birds in Loktak and Ungamen wetland areas since last year", says Dr Kh Shamungou,noted environmentalist while sharing his experience on water bird census during a day-long motivation camp on water bird census 2012 here at Toubul ... Bird census to begin from Feb 11KanglaOnline all 3 news articles »

Find motivation to exercise by setting reachable goals ScrippsNews By LAVINIA RODRIGUEZ, Tampa Bay Times Motivation is something that people find to be mysterious and out of reach. That's especially true when it comes to exercising consistently instead of in the start-and-stop fashion that many people find frustrating ...

'Biggest Loser' Dolvett Quince's Best Advice For Staying Motivated Through The ... Huffington Post With all the layers of winter gear we're wearing and swimsuit season some four months away, it's hard to stay motivated to hit the gym this time of year. (Unless, of course you're one of the Serena Williams of the world.) But if anyone can drum up some ... and more »

Hartford Courant

Motivate Students, And Achievement Follows Hartford Courant But among the ideas that have been advanced so far, one central question goes largely unanswered: "What must we do to ensure that every student is personally engaged in learning and motivated to produce quality work in school?" Without a robust answer ... and more »

Miesha Tate is motivated to bring the fight to 'delusional' Ronda Rousey MMAmania.com Anything that she says is motivation, definitely." Everyone knows Rousey has ridiculous judo, jiu-jitsu and submission skills. Tate comes from a wrestling background, but she believes it's more than just her wrestling that gives her the edge: "That's ... and more »

Motivation and Inspiration: Video The Province (blog) I have a video below that is on motivation and quite popular. Many times people ask me on my journeys what motivates you to do such a thing as cycling around the globe? Where do you draw the inspiration? I wish I could do something like that they say.