So, here we are. The holidays have come and vanished, along with your waist line (even though last year you *promised* yourself that you would never eat that much again - ever.) Ah, 2008 - you’ve planned for it to be a good year. You have lofty goals - your resolutions are really good this year! (Not like last year - this year is *different*).

A lot of people create excitement around ideas, but then those lofty goals more often than not, fall to the wayside. Why is this? To begin with, let’s look at the excuses we use to justify why our goals fail. Notice, that I did not say “the reasons” why our goals fail - I chose those words carefully.

- I don’t have time / I’m too busy
- I don’t have enough money
- It’s (insert someone else’s name)’s fault
- It’s too hard / harder than I expected
- I’ll do it later
- I don’t know how
- It’s just not “the right time”
- First, I have to

These are not reasons - they are the excuses, or stories that we tell ourselves so that we don’t have to face the reality that we failed, were out of integrity, or were lazy in the commitments we made to ourselves or our business.

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