Do you belong to the people who, every 31st of December make a few resolutions how to make their lives a little better, their relationships more durable, their businesses more dynamic and their bodies more presentable?

... and do you also belong to the nearly as large group of people, who after having made their resolution on the 31st of December, on January 3rd or 4th already start to gently ignore what they had in mind and keep on living like they always did, life, relationships, business and bodies staying exactly the same they were in the previous year?

Well welcome to the club! You are the majority! :-)

(The original title was 'My Resolution for 2008 - Build 5 hubs') - I've updated on the progress below, you'll see how easy it is to let things slip and get lost in the daily rat race. It's not something that I'm porud of.....   Here's what my original thoughts expressed when I wrote the lens end of 2007: 

I have given up on New Years Resolutions at the end of the year. I found that I mostly cared about them for the first few days or weeks of the new year and then they seemed to simply fade away and I was back to square one.

I'm changing one thing after the other in my life, as I feel that it's necessary. I.e. I found out, that my liver was enrobed by too much fat, which caused a one time very unpleasant experience of feeling really off and a rush to my doctor who looked worried at first too, given my symptoms....... - not funny! So I'm now losing weight, steadily, and by simply eating a bit less and working with my weights. I did take a concious decision to reduce my weight, a resolution of sorts, but with a very strong motivating factor! And I took it when I felt like it, not on the 31st of December for the New Year. This works for me.

To simply take a few resolutions because it's expected from you and everybody else does it will not work.... - at least for me it does not.

What is my motivation to build that many hubs?

1. It's fun - the interface makes it easy and even though I'm a webmaster and can build websites the conventional way, I find this really cool
2. The community here is full of truly interesting people, and it's friendly and relaxed.
3. Maybe it will generate some income, something I'll never refuse ;-)
4. I'm running an audiobooks shop and will link authors and audiobooks with specific hubs containing book lists and authors bios.

These are all good motivating factors, so I am quite positive, that I will have over 200 hubs by the end of 2008. ... and I've taken that decision already a few days ago, when I realized that I enjoyed building hubs.

You see, I'm cutting myself some slack, mathematically I would have to have 54 x 5 = 270 hubs + my current ones = approx 280 hubs by end of 2008. I know that sometimes I'll build less than 5 per week. So I'm setting my target for a total of 200. Less pressure = More fun!

Update in November 2008: ...... I'm not very proud to say, I have now 25 hubs.... that's 12,5% of what I set out to achieve. OK, that's better than none, but it's disapointing nvere the less. I'm proof for my own theory, that if the goal is too large, you're likely to simply give up.

Fed up of not living life to the full? Not getting the most out of your day? Teri Hatcher, star of the hit TV series Desperate Housewives shows you how to maximise happiness...

Toast. You know when you're trying to make it and you just can't get it right? It's too light or too soft, then... totally burnt. Are you the kind of person who tries to scrape off the black? Or do you smother it with jam to hide the taste? Do you throw it away, or do you just eat it?

Burnt Toast - Teri Hatcher - Personal Growth MP3 Audio Book

Teri Hatcher says about her audiobook and the motivation for producing it:

"Up 'til now, I ate the burnt toast. I learned that from my mother. She always took care of everyone and everything else before herself. This habitual self-sacrifice was a mixed message for a child. It taught me that women should expect and settle for the worst and that even if I did get the golden buttered slice, it meant someone else had to suffer.

Then I hit forty. Did I really want to spend another ten years this way? The easy answer: no. The harder realization was that in order to change, I needed to stop eating the burnt toast. I had to be done anticipating failure. I had to be done feeling like I didn't deserve good things, tasty things. And I was. I didn't want to do it anymore, and I don't want other people to do it either.

That's why i wrote this book. It's my wacky, serious, skittish, heartfelt attempt to share my jagged route to happiness with other people like me. "

In 2005, Teri Hatcher won the Golden Globe award and Screen Actors Guild award for best actress in a comedy for her portrayal of Susan Mayer on the hit TV show Desperate Housewives . The Emmy-nominated actress -also starred as Lois Lane in the TV series Lois & Clark , and has appeared in many feature films, including Spy Kids, Tomorrow Never Dies, Soapdish, and Two Days in the Valley California native , she lives in Los Angeles with her daughter, Emerson Rose,

Deanna Hurst, the narrator of this audio book,is an actress, voiceover artist, and singer/songwriter. She has read several audiobooks. She lives in Los Angeles, with her husband and two dogs.

One thing you need to make sure: Don't make any resolutions, that you are not fully believe in!!

Experience tells that if you are not fully sure that you REALLY want to achieve whatever your mention in your resolution, you're nearly guaranteed that it will not be fulfilled.

So, be totally sure and then make your new years resoluton.