When New Year’s Resolutions are created there’s a personal fear hidden inside every one. It seems that ’stereotypically’ whenever we create a resolution, more often than not it gets broken. It is almost with a superstitious attitude that If I really want to accomplish something I won’t call it a "resolution", I will call it a goal. Do you feel the same?

I’m going to give it a go this year, despite my previous experiences. I will accomplish my resolution goals! [Did you see what I did there, I used the word resolution and goal together, they're bound to get accomplished now!]

Why do I have a sudden change of heart about creating these resolutions, you might ask. Well, a few reasons:

1. I need a new challenge in my life (I feel bored and need to spice some stuff up).
2. I just watched Yes Man with Jim Carry and it was an Amazing Movie!
3. I just read an inspiring blog post by Thomas Hiatt that drives home my thoughts about what I need and want to accomplish.

So here is an incomplete list of what I want to accomplish this year (my New Year’s Resolutions)!

1. Have a 6 Pack in 6 months (no big sweat)
2. Condition myself to avoid High sugar foods (simple carbs)
3. Train to run a 10K
4. Get my clothes ready for the next day, the night before (I just want to do this for discipline)
5. Wake up and get out of bed the first time my alarm goes off (I have a love/hate relationship with my snooze button)
6. Have 100 Control Yours clients in 7 Months
7. Hire a book keeper to keep us in check financially, personally
8. Take 30% out of all income made for savings, tithing, and investments
9. Grow a True Savings account (no spending unless it is a true emergency) to $2000 in 6 months.
10. Move to Europe in 12-14 months.
11. Narrow down the top 3 places we would like to move in Europe
12. Start learning the language together with Shawna
13. Have our passive income exceed our monthly expenses in 6 months
14. Have our passive income double our monthly expenses in 12 months
15. Fill out and send in a patent application for my new Coffee Cup Lid design
16. Talk to SandHill plastics (a local plastic company in Kearney, NE) to see if they can create a mold for the design
17. Sell all of the ad spots to fill our first digital signage system for six months solid
18. Develop an automated distribution system for the Digital Signage System
19. Organize my iTunes audio books with correct album art and titles

What do you have planned for 2009? I’d love to hear.
~ Chais Meyer