My first Blog of 2011 HAPPY NEW YEAR

With each new year people begin to make new year resolutions and according to the internet only 12% of resolutions are kept/met and here are some interesting facts from one website I visited.

Men achieved their goal 22% more often when they set small, measurable goals (lose a pound a week, rather than a vague "lose weight"). Women succeeded 10% more often when they made their goals public and enlisted help from friends.

 

Here are the top 5 New Years resolutions I found on the internet.  Most seem to be the same from year to year.

5. Be a Yes man (Based on some movie I have not seen)

4. Break the Habit

3. Spend more time with loved ones

2. Tame the bulge

1. Go Back to School.

 

Number one did surprise me, not that I am surprised that people want to go back to school, just that it was the number one resolution.  I have to think that this study was a bit skewed because at the end of the article there was a bunch of information and prices for going back to school. But I have to think that numbers 2 – 4 are very accurate because of all the websites I visited they were always on the list and mostly in the top 5. 

Here are the top 5 Children New Year resolutions.

5. Have Fun

4. Work Hard

3. Reach your Dream

2. Give Back

1. Appreciate Today

I am not sure if children really complied this list or not, but if so I think we can really learn a lot from them.  Instead of setting goals aimed mostly at ourselves they set goals that should be in our top 5 things to do not in a year but daily.  I really like number one Appreciate today.  I think I achieve that 90% of the time.  I am very positive and tend to see the glass as running over for most parts and this does tend to drive most people around me crazy because true there isn’t always gold at the end of that rainbow but that does not stop me from pointing out the good in the bad.  But yes like every body else in this crazy world I do have my days where that gold can be on both ends of the rainbow and I would not give a hoot.  But thank God those days are very FEW and FAAAAAAR Between.  Any day that I can get out of bed and kiss my beautiful wife and tell her I love her is the best day of my life.  No matter how good or bad things go I can always be grateful that the lord sent me the best gift that I have and will ever have.  The love and patient of my wife.  I’ve said it before and so I’ll say it again.  Life is good  (NAAA GREAT!!!!!)

Blessings till I post again.