Make a Promise not a Resolution!

How often do you make promises to others and tend to keep them?  What about promising yourself?  Instead of making a New Years Resolution make a promise to yourself to accomplish your goals for the new year.  Start with small goals and then renew them by adding on to them little by little to make it in the end a larger goal.  For instance if your goal is to get rid of the clutter in our lives start with that spot in the kitchen that forever has a piletacks of mail, newspapers, papers from school....) so everyday for the next month take care of that mail right away, toss yesterdays newspaper in the recycling bin and immediately read those papers from school and take action.  Then next month add another clutter buster duty - hopefully by the end of the year you will have a much less cluttered life!