Helpful Tips for Your 2008 Goals & Resolutions

-Into Feng Shui? If so, go over to Magical Musings and read guest blogger Belle Andre's New Year's Feng Shui Tips for Writers. -Do you want to live every day of the new year with a vivid sense of meaning and purpose? If so, visit The Best Year of Your Life website. New York Time's Best Selling Author and Life Coach Debbie Ford offers a free newsletter and site membership. Listen to life-changing meditations, or self-esteem boosting affirmations. Download her free how you can create the best year of your life article and worksheets. -Get a jump start on keeping your New Year's resolutions with Joe's Goals free daily goal tracker. Joe's Goals makes it simple to create, track, and share your personal goals. Grab the code and post your badge to your website or blog. If you forget to post your progress, have a reminder sent to your inbox. But, if you'd rather have a logbook, try Joe's Logbook.

Joe's Logbook is a simple tracking tool that lets you organize your life using the power of your words. Track your activities by adding daily notes explaining your experiences, victories, and failures. Use the simple, single-page interface to setup and track the specifics of any area of your life. Use it to record your thoughts, track your spending, watch your health, and track your dreams and inspirations. Add as many Logbooks as you want and update them all from a single interface.

What more can you ask for? -If you're a LiveJournal member, make a cute little New Year's Resolution badge and post to your blog or website. It's similar to Joe's Goals (see below), only it doesn't keep track of your progress, it only lists your goals and/or resolutions. Visit Robin D. Owen's blog to see a sample. -Fiction Factor features an article by Lee Masterson titled: Setting Goals for Your Writing Career -Surf on over to Holly Lisle's website and read her article, How to Get There From Here: The Magic of Goals, then complete the goal-writing exercise. -Are you a "slacker" when it comes to goal-setting? If so, then The Slacker's Guide To Goal Setting And Writing Success by Angela Booth is for you. Read about Jerry Seinfield's Productivity Secret here. -And finally, you'll need something to help you keep track of all your goals and resolutions. And the GoalPro 2008 is just what you need to do it. GoalPro features a personal success coach, a GoalPro scratchpad, a daily journal, reports and graphs, action-planning calendar and a success tree that provides an overview of your goal routine, graphically showing the hierarchy. This looks like a great program, however, it's a little pricey for my pocketbook. -If you'd rather have a free program, try Task Coach - Your Friendly Task Manager.