Driver Lifestyles

New Year, New You?

Welcome to 2005!

Traditionally, the beginning of a new year is the time to reflect on the past, and make plans for the future. It’s a chance for a "clean slate", a new start, a change to improve yourself and your life. It’s time to look at your life and ask that ultimate question, "Am I Happy as I am?" If not, what would it take to be so?

I challenge you to get out pen and paper, sit down, and make a list of things you want to accomplish this year. Just saying them, is not enough. It is a proven fact, that if we write goals down, we are more likely to accomplish them.

Make the goals specific, not general. For example, don’t say, "I want to lose SOME weight", "I want to make MORE money"; instead, say "I want to lose 30 pounds by this date", "I want to improve my profit margin by 10%’, get the idea?

Write down some categories, such as Personal Goals, Health Goals, Spiritual Goals, Financial Goals, and Family Goals. Then, under each category, write down 5 or more specific goals.

For instance, under Personal Goals, maybe you want to go fishing more, try sky-diving or bungee jumping. For Health Goals, how about losing 20 pounds (or more if you need it!), or simply deciding you’re going to eat healthier or exercise 4 times a week.

Maybe you want to make a goal to go to a church of your choice more, or plan special time and mini-vacations for your family. Then for each of those specific goals, write down what steps you must take to fulfill those goals.

Finally, list a specific time table for each of those steps. What needs to be accomplished today, next week next month, for you to be on track to succeed in your goals?

If you do this, and continually go back over your list, keeping it fresh in your mind, and take action ON that list, I’m confident you will succeed in meeting the challenge you laid out for yourself.

Have some fun with it! Dream a little! Make each goal just high enough to be a little out of reach, so that you have something to shoot for, yet believable enough to excite you!

It’s the New Year….!

Now, what are you going to do with it?

Dale Gose is known to Open Forum members as the moderator "Dreamer".  He is a life-long resident of Ohio, where he lives with his wife and two children.  A former bouncer, stock broker, car salesman, and restaurant manager, he has driven commercially off and on since 1993, starting with a D-Unit contracted to then Roberts Express, and most recently a B-Unit with FedExCC