Yes, I know. I had all year to get it done but I officially completed the required continuing ed for 2007 just 6 minutes ago. For a procrastinator, that means I did really, really well! I finished early - exactly 5 hours and 57 minutes early to be precise!
So now it's on to New Year's Resolutions:
1) Complete 2008 continuing ed in a timely manner - oh, the many ways I can abuse that far too generous and vague mandate...
2) Write down my business and personal goals with defined actions needed to get quantifiable results; it needs to be committed to paper to be measurable, accountable, and real - tomorrow.
3) Clean and organize my darned home office!!!
4) Put doors on my darned dining-room-turned-home-office; shut the doors when working in there and when the work is done for the day.
5) Try to avoid working in areas of the house that are NOT the office; the views may be better from the family room but who needs that distraction? Who needs to waste footsteps going back and forth to get things, fax stuff, file stuff, prepare for appointments...not me in 2008!
6) Control paper. Open the mail! Pay, act, file, shred - do whatever is required of it. Read and recycle the newspapers or discontinue delivery. There are only so many hours in a day.
7) Value my son in his senior year of high school before he heads off to Michigan Tech in the fall, in the way that his friends and teachers do. Do those clothes on the floor and the clutter of glasses, dishes, soda cans at his computer really mean his future is dicey?
8) 
Support my older daugher in her final college year at the University of Michigan, in whatever way I can. Cheer her on as she studies in Paris in the spring. Help her make wise decisions about her future by listening first and advising later.
9) 
Spend down time with my younger daughter doing the things she is always asking me to do with her - go for a walk, do DDR (so she can laugh at me), take her shopping, over and over and over again. Hey, all that walking and bad dancing eliminates the need for a fitness resolution!
10) OK, if not fitness then a wellness resolution anyway. Team up with my husband to reach health and weight goals, but more importantly, build in stress-reducing time to spend together. Old man/woman time is becoming reality at our house. It's time for action; the whole family will benefit.
Back to the original point of this blog, continuing ed. My family predicted I would be sweating over my keyboard while the ball hovered over Times Square, countdown to 2008 just beginning. I showed them! This is the year it all comes together. Happy New Year fellow AR bloggers - see you again next year. :)
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