Welcome to Surpass Your Dreams. The goal of the newsletter and weekly tips is to help you recognize your potential and surpass your dreams. Included are tips for either transitioning into a career you love, exceling in the career you have now, or creating balance in your life.

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1. Are You Choosing Your Resolutions Or Are They Choosing You?
2. Seven Things To Give This Year Because You Want To
3. Kick Your Career Into High Gear!
4. Coaches Corner-Cherish Your Gift
5. Great Resources

Just think about it. If you spend most of your energy on work, and you think you SHOULD focus more on your life after work, resolving to bring balance into your day will not happen. If you are unhappy in your job and you think you SHOULD leave, you will not find another position until you want to in your heart. (No matter how much you complain.) If you think you SHOULD be starting your own business, but you know that you are not ready, your resolution to work for yourself will fall through. (Even if you have the best business idea in the world.)

This year, choose your resolutions because you WANT TO, not because you SHOULD. "I want to" will carry you through the hard times when it seems like your resolutions might not come true. It will also give you the strength to make your resolutions a reality. "I Want To" is the key to your success.

So what will next year at this time look like? Whatever you choose, do it for the right reasons, and that reason is doing it for you. Good luck!

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II. SEVEN THINGS TO GIVE THIS YEAR BECAUSE YOU WANT TO

Here are 7 great things to give to the world. Simple things that would make a huge impact on the people around you. But do so only if you want to!

1. Your Time.

How many of you have become so busy with your own lives, that there is less time for others? The people in your life need and love you. Make time for them. You never know what tomorrow will bring.

2. Your Support.

How many of you support the people in your life? What I mean by support is encouragement to try something new. Just because it did not work for you does not mean it will not work for them. And, just because it did not work for them in the past, does not mean that it will not work in the future. There is nothing better than telling a person that they can do whatever they want with their lives. They will never forget your encouraging words.

3. Your Acceptance.

Are you giving your unconditional love and acknowledgement for who the people in your life are versus where you think they should be? Why not let go of your opinions and judgments and replace them with admiration for what the other person is going through and trying to accomplish? Sure they may make some mistakes that you wish they could avoid, but at least the lessons will be theirs to keep and cherish versus something you forced on them.

4. Your Attention.

How many of you can say you really listen? For everyone who just said, "of course I do", then why are the people in your life asking you to repeat what they just said? Is it because they know you did not hear them? Can you stop what you are doing, and focus on what they are saying? Who knows, you may even learn something you thought you already knew.

5. Your Forgiveness.

Why not forgive people for past mistakes and hurts? After all, they are only human. (We miss this sometimes!) Plus, have you been the model human being? Forgiveness is an amazing gift you can give another person. They will remember your kindness.

Note: Yes you can write to me to tell me all the reasons why you do not have to forgive the people who have hurt you. But think about this: who are you hurting more with your anger, them or you?

6. Your Patience.

How many of you cannot even sit still when you are around the people you love because they are taking too long to tell a story or longer than "you think" to complete a project. How do you know there is not a better way to do something? Having patience with people shows them that they are respected and loved. Isn't this a better way to have a relationship?

7. Your Love.

People want to know they are special in your life and you care about them. If there are conversations you need to have so you are not angry with them anymore, but you are afraid, my advice is to have them anyway. Sometimes you have to take a risk to achieve an open and rewarding relationship. Take the risk and give your love.

About the Author: Usually this column is dedicated to other author's works. But this month, I included a piece that I wrote. I hope you enjoy it!

III. KICK YOUR CAREER INTO HIGH GEAR!

Would you like to take a test that will help you discover what your ideal career is, or how to excel in the career you are in?

Assessments are tests that provide an objective measurement of your behavior, values, passions, and much more. They can provide valuable insights to obstacles that you may be facing in your career. They can tell you if you are in the right career or why you are not as effective as you would like to be. They are highly accurate and have changed many people's lives.

Visit assessments.html for Career Assessment Testing that will put you on track to being where you want to be in your career.

IV. COACHES CORNER

Since many of my newsletter subscribers are coaches, this section is for you. It contains tips and techniques to take your coaching practice to the next level.

THIS MONTH: CHERISH YOUR GIFT