It’s always interesting to see how a year finishes up, compared to your hopes and plans at the beginning of the year.

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions these days but I do have a goal planning session around the middle of January each year and put the results of that onto a PowerPoint presentation in full colour, along with images and some Scripture from the Bible that is relevant to the theme of my goals, print it off, laminate it and stick it on my office wall close to my computer monitor so it’s visible in front of me every day.

I also share it with my business coach although I was doing this before I started attending sessions with him three years ago.

Some might not see the benefit of this but in the 1980s when I used to attend Amway meetings they spoke about affirmation cards and the power of dream building.   These were pretty much the same as goal setting. If you don’t know where you’re headed then you’ll pretty much end up nowhere or perhaps somewhere far from where you might have hoped to be.  And it’s important to keep your goals visibly in front of you for those days when things don’t seem to be going right and you’re almost ready to give it all up.  I’ve had those days and I bet you have too!

I want to wish you all a prosperous 2009, whether that be through finances, personal achievements or some other goal or goals you have for your life.  I hope that 2009 brings with it much contentment and a sense of satisfaction at the end of it.

For us as a family, we pray and hope that it will bring peace and new things.  Many of you know we lost a daughter this year and so we enter into a new one with some sadness and hope for better things to come.

Happy New Year to you all!

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I’m a member of Aussie Bloggers Forum and one of the members, Kin, organised a Secret Santa gift swap.  Well, my secret santa gift has arrived and someone knows my vice.  I’m a stationary junkie!

I wonder how they knew?  Thanks Secret Santa, whoever you are!  All I know is that you’re another Melbourne Aussie Blogger.

This will be a constant companion for notes for those blog posts I think about when not in my office!

Well, there’s been a bit of excitement in town this week, or should I say the country? Thanks to Craig Harper, who generated his own slant on ‘Craig’s List’ there is now a list of the Top 100 Aussie Bloggers. Meg of Blogpond took it a step further and updated the list. The rankings have been drawn both from Technorati and Alexa. And then Melbourne’s newspaper The Age got into the act and did a story about blogging in Australia.

And now some of the bloggers are looking to meet up for face-to-face meetings and chats. Sydney already has a group meeting periodically and now Melbourne is calling up all Melbourne bloggers to do the same. You’ll see a logo at the top of this blog now – just click on it and it will take you to the list of Melbourne bloggers and meeting plans. If you’re in Melbourne hope to see you there sometime! KMT

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