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Happy New Year! I pray that whatever obstacles stood in your way in 2007 will be swept away and buried underneath an embarrassment of riches in this New Year.

This year, I’ve decided not to have resolutions, per se. They’re really just a re-statement of my goals. That’s not to say that I’m not going to list a bunch of things I intend to start or stop doing this year. I’m just saying that they generally boil down to one thing.

Fear.

All of 2007 I spent the year being afraid of this thing or that. I was afraid to move forward from my semi-retirement mode, into my full-on, all-I-gots-is-a-membership-site retirement. I was afraid to do joint ventures, because of the disaster of 2006 that almost broke my business. I was afraid to slow down to heal, and when I started to heal, I was afraid to move forward, thinking I’d be bringing the past with me.

No other thing has lost me more money, caused me more worry, or affected my health more. And you know what?

Not ONE single thing that I was afraid of was real. Not one. Not a Single One. Everything I dreaded wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. And yeah, I spent 2007 trying to generate enough money to pay back the debt of 2006, especially hospital bills, to the point that my friends wanted to have a fundraiser for me. But you guessed it, I was afraid of that too.

So, in 2008, that’s my main goal. Not to be afraid. Not to take everything so seriously. To live.

I’m going to make a short list of what I’m going to refrain from being afraid of, and what I’m going to do, being realistic about whether I can attain the goal. Make a list at your site, leave it as the link when you make your comment and I’ll link to you. In fact, it would be great if we would all link to each other. This time next week I’ll publish the updated list.

1. I’m not going to be afraid to ask my friends for help. Not counting search experts, not looking in my email address book, I counted 83 well-known experts and gurus I have access to, half of which, at this point, have explicitly told me they owe me a favor. How many people could I have helped if I put those experts together with my audience? Not to mention how much money? I could be writing about my retirement right now.
2. In fact, I’m going to use all the resources I have, and stop saving them for a rainy day. It’s pouring like a sonofabitch right now.
3. I’m going to involve my family in aspects of my business where they can help. My youngest sister has been offering to help me out for years. It would take me a day to train her because she already has internet experience. Seriously what is wrong with me.
4. I’m going to be more giving, more often in social media marketing. Both with my own links and with other people.
5. I’m going to Hawaii this year.
6. I’m going to every possible conference, starting in March.
7. It’s time for this membership site to open. Like immediately. It’s been delayed because I haven’t had the time/energy. So I’m gonna use some of that HELP I talked about earlier. Funny how well that would work, huh?

Okay, so you tell me yours. Don’t make me start naming names.

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