It’s a new year and many people are setting new goals. It is wonderful that people feel like the New Year is the time for a fresh start.  Here are some things you should consider when making personal changes:

• You must know what you want as an end result of your efforts.  To begin 
   you don’t need to know every step, but you must know what your desired
   results will be.
• You will need to do more than just work harder.  What you do is actually
   more important than how hard you work at it.  Your level of effort doesn’t
   matter as much as the kind of effort you put forth. 
• You will have to take risks.  Most people equate risk to danger or potential
   loss, but in this case risk equates to different.  The risk of not doing
   anything is more damaging to reaching your goals than the risk of not trying.
• You cannot be deterred by failures.  Risks often result in failures, but failures
   can help you.  Failures are really feedback that let you know that your method
   or your process didn’t work.  When you get that feedback, take another
   approach to reaching your results.

     Make a change even a little change; you’ll find that momentum will build and pretty soon you’ll be moving quickly to the results you want.