* Focus on one day at a time.

* Live moment.

* Forget yesterday and look forward to tomorrow. If you are guilty about what happened yesterday, or are anxious about what might happen tomorrow, your energy will be dissipated.

* Plan your work, then work your plan.

* What good and bad habits have you developed? Reinforce good daily patterns and break bad.

* Be an "early bird".

Habits start as consciously made decisions, eg.. what time to get up. Once established, good habits become second nature.

Success is result of habit. It depends not so much on doing unusual, but on doing commonplace unusually well.

DON'T PROCRASTINATE - DO IT NOW

Don't confuse being busy with working efficiently - activities can be tension-relieving, not goal achieving. By concentrating on fewer, priorities regularly on a fixed schedule, you can achieve a lot more in less time.

IS TIME THE PROBLEM OR ARE YOU?

Draw up a daily "to do" list. Rank priority tasks (the important few), as well as trivial many. This allows you to focus on fewer things and achieve more. Sort into A, B & C's

A's are important and urgent. Must do today.

B's are important and not urgent. Want to do today.

C's are not important. Today, if possible or delegate.

TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS:

1. LIST YOUR GOALS AND SET PRIORITIES:

* Life Goals * Work Goals * Identify Short Term A's. 2. MAKE A DAILY "TO DO" LIST

* Set A B C's * Don't schedule every minute of day.

3. Start with A's - NOT WITH C's

A's are 80% of everything. Make inroads into A's every chance you get. Use 'Swiss Cheese' approach, ie. Identify small tasks that will poke a hole in a big one. Do these in your odd moments. Do anything that moves A along.

4. ASK YOURSELF: WHAT IS THE BEST USE OF MY TIME RIGHT NOW?

Why waste time on C's if you've an A to do? Fight habits and just filling in time.

5. HANDLE EACH PIECE OF PAPER ONLY ONCE

Have a C drawer

6. DO IT NOW!

Miss Foley taught me to read. Mrs. Anderson taught me to learn from what I was reading.

These two women brought about an awakening in my life. They guided me from illiteracy to artistry. It was in second grade I discovered expression through haiku and creative writing, spinning tales regularly for myself and anyone else who I perceived was interested. Influential partners and teachers in our lives are Transformers. Revolutionaries. Together, they have power to change humanity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely attractions study has for himself."

Lately I have been awakened through personal study of Renaissance period in history.

Renaissance. Merriam Webster tell us it can mean a specific period of time in Human history following Middle Ages or it can point towards a period of revival or renewal. Finally, it can be a personal experience of an expansion in artistic and intellectual activity.

When an old year becomes history and we are given a fresh new calendar, suddenly possibilities glisten and glean before our eyes. We stand taller, we make new commitments. We sometimes stand courageous where before we would stand in place of fear.

All because we turn page of a calendar from one year to next.

A couple years ago there was quite a period of unsettle as people concerned themselves with year 2000. All that negative, nervous energy was for naught. Worldwide, humanity collaborated to make a smooth transition from one millenium to next.

You can make a smooth transition, today, to stand tall and courageous in Your New Renaissance.

My theme for year 2002 is "My New Renaissance: Honoring All of Me."