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Letter From the Publisher

Happy 2012! As you reflect on 2011, we realize it was a wonderful year and we can count numerous blessing. We still have opportunity to improve in 2012. Here is our plan of action and thought we would share it with you.

1. One goal. You’re at your most powerful if you focus on one thing at a time. With one goal, you’ll be able to focus your energy and attention completely on that one goal. And that’s one of the secrets of success. Put your goal on your wall, on your computer desktop.

2. Create a new habit. Goals are achieved by habits. What habit can you develop this month to help achieve your One Goal for this year? Once you’ve identified that goal, you’ll need to commit yourself, hold yourself accountable to a group of people, and focus completely on that habit for a month. It’s the perfect way to create a habit and lead to the achievement of your One Goal.

3. Take action now. It’s all good and well to set goals or resolutions, but the best plans are worthless if you don’t act on them. Action is everything. Take action today to make your goal come true. Tomorrow, take another action. In fact, take one action toward your One Goal every day, first thing in the day, and make it the most important thing you do every day. If you do that, there’s almost no way that you won’t achieve that goal.

4. Simplify. Take the time to simplify your life, in some way, this month; your year will be much better. When we have too much going on in our lives, it overwhelms us. It spreads us thin. It makes us ineffective. Simplifying things helps keep us sane, and makes us more powerful.

6. Schedule time for you and your loved ones. At least one thing on your short list of 4-5 things should be something you love to do. At least one other should be spending time in some way with people you love to spend time with. For me, that’s my husband and kids, bike riding and reading and playing games. Actually, that sentence describes my entire short list: spend time with family, read, play games, and ride bikes. Everything else is superfluous. Spending time with loved ones, connecting with them, is in my opinion absolutely essential to happiness.

To make this your best year ever, learn to focus. Make it one of your monthly habits. Start by identifying your One Goal and your 4-5 priorities.

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From the heart!

Barbara Doyle
Publisher & Founder
Families on-the-go magazine

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