We are just counting days and hours into a new year. These days are just on our finger tips. Thanks for the good job of counting the remaining days, nights, seconds and hours. But if I may ask you how you have prepared to dive into the New Year?

I may not need the answer now, but may be we can help each other to make a flash back or a recap of the year 2008. At the beginning of the year 2008, we made new resolutions. Many of us listed down a number of things we wanted to achieve or attain.

In fact some of us told ourselves that come rain or sunshine; we must achieve our set targets. My sister, my brother, if you are to list down the things you have achieved in the year 2008, are there quite a number of them or none?

My message today goes mostly to those who had set some targets but until now have not yet got what they planned or yearned for.

Come-on my friend don’t loose hope. There is still another chance for you to reach your goals. Benjamin Mays says that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

The Earl of Beaconsfield says that the secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. So to you who had a lot of hope and probably abandoned that big dream you had with you, better see 2009 as a new opportunity where all the big dreams will be accomplished.

In his words Edwin H. Chapin says that impatience never commanded success. Better be patient and see what 2009 carries into your cherished life.

Welcome 2009 with a positive mind because a positive mind brings about inner peace, and cleans away our anxieties and worries. Happy New Year those who will find their hopes renewed as they read this peace.

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