If you are like most folks you are likely putting plans together for the new year. Instead of spending time thinking about a new year's resolution or listing out all the things you want to accomplish this year, I would like to suggest you take a slightly different view of 2011.

Before you start that "to-do" list, take a few minutes to consider what would have to happen for 2011 to be one of the best years of your life? Close your eyes and really visualize yourself as having the best year. What would happen both personally and professionally? Then write it down in as descriptive a manner as possible. Describe the situations, the outcomes, the responses of others, what it would mean to you and your loved ones. Once you have finished this task, then go ahead and identify your annual goals, only this time, write your goals so that they support the achievement of the "best" year. If you begin your year with the aim of the "best" year ever, and you establish goals that will support the outcomes of such a year, you are setting yourself up for greater success and greater opportunity.
 

Please read more for tools and tips that can help you and your colleagues to have the "best 2011". May you have a year that is happy, healthy, and prosperous!