This begins the opposite installment of my end of year blogging adventure. I went on in my previous post about 2008 so I won't go and re-hash any of that.  No, this is about setting those bars and goals for the upcomg year. We all do it year after year.   Maintaining the focus to stay committed to those goals is the hard part.   I only hope to lay before me a reasonable path that is not one aimed directly up a mountain.

There is so much to do and so little time it seems an almost impossible task just to figure out where to start.  I have decided to begin from the inside out and that means a more focused attempt at re-structuring my lifestyle to promote health.  I realize that this is pretty much the foundation to anything else one chooses to tackle in the way of either self-improvement or personal achievements in life.

So that is where I will begin.  I am toying around with the idea of dealing with the psychological effort in a way similar to that of anyone running a business; by creating a "contract" with myself.  I was thinking of making it sort of a "living" document that is structured like a task list.  I would of course start with the category of Health and then determine what the terms of achieving that goal are.  Then for the year ahead I would target each goal and begin to pick them off.

Depending on how that goes, I may add a term of possibly personal growth or career growth.  All of that would, of course, have to be balanced with family.  Oh boy, here I go as my thoughts begin to roll the list begins to grow, which of course introduces stress and makes one begin to think about giving up because the mountain is too high.

That's it, I'm stopping now.  I don't want this to get too out of control before I even figure out how to structure it so that it may be controlled.  Good luck in your goals for 2009, I know I will need it.