There are two reasons why New Year Resolutions don't work;

1st we try and take on too much, 2nd we don't believe in ourselves. In world of resolutions, "Size does matter". You can turn your resolutions into realities by starting small. As saying goes, "the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time!"

At start of each New Year we begin by looking at our life and deciding this is year we are going to make real changes in weight, romance, smoking, drinking, career, money, getting in shape, organizing, cleaning and more. Well, we never followed through in all other years, so as good as our intentions and desires are our subconscious is not expecting our resolution to come true. We have conditioned ourselves to doubt our ability to change. This core lack of belief triggers a lack of commitment to action and result is same year after year: not pursuing our goals with consistent action.

Well you have said it before, "This year is year I _______!" Sound familiar? You have said it and you have not done it, but there is a way to make your goals materialize. Here is Coach Steele's abbreviated "Resolution Success System!"

Step One: Learn and use this Success System. One you learn system you can apply system over and over again with success in every area of your life. Concentrate on system not goal.

Step Two: "Pick one, and get it done" as a friend of mine is fond of saying. Make sure you are picking something that you really want to achieve. You can't lose weight, stop smoking, or get an education because someone else wants you to. If you really want something you will do what it takes.

Have you reached your full human potential? By far, too many souls have lived their lives wandering aimlessly about in hopeless despair. Each day, people awaken to a new day but dwell on same problems from days, months, even years before. Worry and anguish seem to top lists of those constant procrastinators and apprehensive individuals who would rather give up on life than find positive it has to offer us all.

I present a good example of "full human potential:" Over 3 years ago, I found myself in a very harmful situation. Not only was my life at stake, but my mentality, emotional sense and overall well-being was on brink of major catastrophic malalignment. Here I sat -- an emotionless wasteland filled with destructive thought patterns. Not only was my rational effected, but my physical health was at a total loss. Bound to a wheelchair, I was instructed to take a wide spectrum of prescription drugs that were going to "help" me.

Day by day, I had to take pills that would possibly spark my nerves to get me walking again; pills that would reduce muscle spasms; pills that would "reroute" nerve signals; pills that would line my stomach from all of other pills; "happy" pills that helped for my "depression;" pills that helped calm my nerves; pills that stopped any seizures; pills that helped for fluid retention; pills that stopped my nausea from all other pills....the list was endless.

I had to literally have people call me to remind me of which pills I had to take next, or I'd forget to either take them or take too many of them. Most of time, I was a rolling zombie. I couldn't sleep at night because of restless leg syndrome. I couldn't sleep during day because I was afraid I wouldn't wake up.

Beside injury that left me permanently physically impaired, my finances were in total shambles. I could no longer work labored jobs I was used to doing. This was and still is no longer an option for me. Instead of freely driving whenever I want to, I always have to let someone know when I'm going and where I'm going...just in case my legs or arms decide to go out on me. My left eye has recently been effected by my nerve damage so when I peer at a computer screen or a familiar face, I have to focus with my right eye; as double vision has become a recurring event in my life. My back and buttocks tend to sporadically get hit with shockwaves of electrical, spine tingling numbness. When that happens, I can count on one or both of my legs quitting on me. And it happens in some of worst of places too. I can go shopping at local grocery store and viola -- my leg simply stops working. Or better still, try going to Sunday mass and suddenly I'm holding on to aisle pews and railings because one or both legs decided they weren't going to cooperate that day.

People will ask me, "how can you live like that?" That's simple. I've learned to live to my fullest human potential. No, I can't do all things I used to do. But instead of focusing on all things that I "can't" do, I refocused my thinking on things that I "CAN" do.