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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

(taken from SUCCESS Magazine)

What are you going to do now to make sure you have your best year ever? What one thing will mean the difference in actually achieving your goals rather than chalking them up to yet another year’s unfulfilled resolutions? What can you do to enhance an aspect of your life that you’ve neglected in your single-minded pursuit of that elusive brass ring? Think about it.

We asked a host of experts, readers who follow SUCCESS on Twitter and Facebook, and our SUCCESS staff what they will do to kick-start 2010.

1 – Expand your thinking with new experiences.

2 – Write letters to three people in your life to let them know what they mean to you.

3 – Start a business plan.

4 – Write a 101 Life-Goal List.

5 – Make a commitment to fitness.

6 – Find a volunteer opportunity at Volunteer.org.

7 – Invest in a bright financial future.

8 – Build value every day.

9 – Practice the ONE-A-DAY principle.

10 – Sign up for a birthday/anniversary reminder service.

11 – Increase your awareness of your thoughts.

12 – Write a personal mission statement or mantra.

13 – Schedule family time.

14 – Lose other people’s opinions.

15 – Stop using the “bad thing” label.

16 – Find a mentor.

17 – Take stock and charge forward.

18 – Reach my financial goals.

19 – Get a whole new hairstyle or haircut.

20 – Keep friends close.

21 – Get a leg up.

22 – Create an environment fostering your success.

23 – Write your top 10 goals for this year and post them where you can see them.

24 – Increase productivity.

25 – Take daily steps toward achieving my long-term vision.

26 – Refresh your network.

27 – Automate bill payments.

28 – Reconnect with family.

29 – Do something that scares you.

30 – Be a student of all you do.

31 – Have gratitude.

32 – Stop smoking.

33 – Review your expenses as a couple.

34 – Take a dance or fitness class.

35 – Slow down to speed up.

36 – Cut up credit cards.

37 – Plan a trip to a place you have always wanted to go.

38 – Write a not-to-do-list.

39 – Clean out your closet and donate unwanted clothes to charity.

40 – Schedule a regular date night on your calendar with your spouse.

41 – Schedule all doctor and dentist appointments for the year.

42 – Say “yes” when you want to say “no.”

43 – Communicate and connect.

44 – Lower your blood pressure.