2 - Take one small action every day

Most worthwhile goals aren't achieved overnight. So it's helpful to find ways to keep your momentum going. Suggestion? Every single day, do at least one thing that will get you closer to your goal.

• Make a phone call

• Find an organization that can help, and ask for information

• Write in your journal

• Read about your goal

• Keep a chart of your progress

• Make a list of your successes

• Join an online support group

• Pat yourself on back (or get someone else to pat you on back!)

Don't let a day go by without doing something - even a teensy weensy little something - toward your goal. You'll find it really adds up.

3 - Get word out

Over and over, research has shown that people who tell others about their goals are more successful at achieving them. So don't keep it to yourself - tell world what you're up to!

Share your struggles, and your successes. Ask for help when you need it. Even better, help someone else achieve their goal. Find as many ways as you can to broadcast your commitment.

Are you going to stumble along way? Maybe so. But if you've got right goal - and right tools - you'll get there.

And with any luck at all, you'll be there long before it's time to make your resolutions for next year.

Best-selling author and coach Kathy Gulrich helps clients get from 'idea' to 'action' to 'results' more quickly, and more easily - whether they're looking to write a book, develop a new product, or market their product or business.

The therapist also expresses how quickly Helen was able to work through her demons as shown by following excerpt:

"Helen spent only a year in intense psychotherapy with me. The average length of treatment time is somewhere between five and ten years. She was highly motivated and followed her gut instincts in making therapeutic decisions for herself. She read. She wrote. She practiced suggestive directives. She attended a national conference for adult survivors. Her art work was another vehicle for self-understanding. She used relaxation techniques when feeling panicky. She begin to fill her new "house" by acknowledging and fulfilling needs of her integrating selves. Decisions Helen made for herself rather than against herself were catalyst toward wholeness."

As you can see, by above excerpt, healing from incest or any other form of childhood abuse can be done with hard work and determination. I would recommend this find piece of work to anyone who has suffered pain and anguish of child abuse or to anyone who wants to discover how they can make changes in their own life that can help them move forward to living life to its fullest.

Copyrighted 2005: Faye Brown. All Rights Reserved. Faye Brown is author of upcoming novel, Strange Fruit In A Small Town. Her website address is: http://www.newnovel.bravehost.com Her blog address is: http://www.fayebrown.blogspot.com.