10 Tips to make 2010 the best year EVER!
January 6, 2010 by davehageman
Filed under Financial Times, Goal Setting, Personal Development
I honestly wrote this at the end of 2008 for 2009 and thought…. this is still great advice and I am glad I found it…
Enjoy!
Many have acknowledged in recent conversations that the Holiday Season and the New Year is a time to sow, how there’s so much fear in our world right now and how it’s related to some of the universal laws that modern society has forgotten.
We have put together a quick, easy-to-apply Top Tips on how to THRIVE in this economy and how to apply knowledge you might want to know:
1. Clearly define what inspires you.
There’s a big difference between taking action out of inspiration versus desperation. Use this season as an opportunity to hibernate into the recesses of your own mind and define what you choose to create in your next spring.
2. Control your focus.
Energy flows where attention goes. Are you focusing on lack or opportunity?
3. Feed your mind.
What’s your constant mental diet? Do you spend hours in front of the scare news or are you reading good books, attending more positive classes/seminars, watching uplifting DVD’s and listening to powerful CD’s?
4. Strengthen your body.
Your physical health and vitality have a tremendous impact on your performance as well as your mental and emotional fitness. Exercise releases stress as well as strengthens your body and mind.
5. Inventory your friends : )
Doom and gloom attracts more doom and gloom. Jettison those “energy vampires” around you and surround yourself with opportunity seekers.
6. Quiet your mind.
Take time to meditate daily and to slow down if only for a few minutes. Ten to fifteen minutes of meditation will relieve hours of stress and increase creativity and resourcefulness.
7. Rid your life of escapist activities.
Overindulgence in TV, sleep and alcohol only accelerates the problems you’re attempting to avoid.
8. Make a daily gratitude list.
Focusing on all the good, gifts and God in your life puts you in the right line of thought, feeling and their subsequent actions, which will attract and create more good, gifts and God.
9. Change your attitude.
Realize that everything that’s happened in your life thus far is here to serve you, teach you and help you grow. Find the lessons in your past results, forgive yourself for anything you could have done better and apply the lesson to move forward and create a better future.
10. Get resourceful.
For the next seven days, go to a place where you can have uninterrupted time… Come up with 10 new ideas to grow your income, creat new results and improve your life. You cannot leave your spot until you have 10! And no editing! All ideas are good ideas.
Now take your list of ideas and pick the three to five most powerful and leveraged ones to put into action. Pick these 3-5 based on: ease of implementation, rate of return and speed of return.
Just like our friend Macgyver did… 
So during this New Year and this New Decade I am blessed to be a resource to you! It’s all about resourcefulness. Get resourceful and get busy!
DH
Great article, Dave! Wonderful tips for a New Year reset. It’s no accident that you found it when you did. It was just what I needed to read today! Thanks again!
I love this list! No fluff. All great proactive actions we need to take for success.
Taking action to improve yourself is important and by far more important than studying what it is you want to be doing over and over again without taking any action on it.
I have to agree though that you should be taking focused action on what’s going to help benefit your future than just taking any action. In fact, any action is what’s also going to teach you what you might need to know in order to take the right action later on. Life is all about learning from our mistakes and using those lessons to help better our individual selves.
Great article!