Commit Only to What is Valuable

What is ValuableOnly commit to things that you can place the highest value in accomplishing. These are the only things that you have any real intention of doing anyhow. If you have not commitment to follow through on your resolutions, they do more to rob you of your power than they do to support. This year, try it a different way and create plans to which you are committed and build in accountability. This will increase your odds of having a powerful 2009.

Have a powerful day!

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Barack Needs Your Help: He Can’t Fulfill All of His Campaign Promises Without You

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The election of Barack Obama is indeed historical and marks the beginning of a new era in American history.  Not only has our country made great strides in achieving Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream of an America where we are judged not by the color of our skin but by the content of our character, we have reached new heights of involvement in the political process and have called for change.  Barack Obama ran on a platform of change.  “Yes, we can” was his campaign slogan.

Now that he has been elected our 44th president and the first black president of the United States of America, we must remember that we only elected a president, not a savior.  While bold claims of c...
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Accountability is About Results – Not Punishment

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For some reason accountability has gotten a bad reputation in this society. When the word is used, many of us tend to have flashbacks to being sent to the principal’s office to be held “accountable” for our actions — which of course only happens when the actions are deemed unacceptable.

Our entire school experience is based upon a punitive use of accountability. We are given assignments and are graded on our performance when they are due. When we are younger, our parents often bug us during the interim to see how we are doing and whether we are making progress. The older we get though, we learn that, in college, it’s our responsibility – no one will be there to prod us along. And our grades, at the end are used to hold us accountable – to reward or punish us for the quality of ou...
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