Happy New Year to all our friends at griffin+row.

I recently ran into a friend who confessed that her New Year resolutions were already fading into the distance.

We talked about why this happens year after year and we came up with some solutions to apply to ourselves-hope these ideas assist you in achieving your dreams and goals in 2011.

We decided to divide our lives up into the four important parts and focus on each of these,setting specific,exciting achievable,measurable goals in each area.

Spiritual-what really makes our soul soar?

Whatever that thing is lets do more of it, it's the things that really gets you up in the morning in a great frame of mind, it's the things that no matter what other negative things are happening, we feel so good inside we can cope

Emotional-what makes us feel good?

What do we get deepest satisfaction from,is it doing things for our family, is it taking part in community, is it doing things for our partner?

Do we give enough thought to what makes us feel good?

Physical-how fit and healthy do we really want to be?

At our age we decided we cant expect to be as fit as a young athletes,but we can expect to get the benefits of a daily exercise regime and healthy eating. Both of us decided that we could continue to commit to a daily exercise regime and that we would continue to take our eating habits seriously.

Of course being in the skin care business I am as focused on looking after my skin as my internal health. The griffin+row regime is so easy it is self motivating!

Financial-as Robert Kiyosaki says there is nothing charming about poverty

We both decided that finances required that we look carefully at how we are making, investing and spending our money. That we would set budgets for our spending and earning for the year. At least that would be a good start!

We found it very helpful to share our goals with each other and agreed to have a lunch or walk together to discuss our progress during the year. This we agreed would make us more accountable for achieving what we set out to do in the time we want to do it. So we now each have a goals buddy-someone we each trust to be interested enough in our goals that we will remind me each other of what we set out to do in 2011!