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Wow!  It’s December already. We're at the end of another year. Where has it gone? This year just flew by for me.  And now, it’s a time of reflection.  What kind of year was it?   Did you achieve all your goals? If so, good for you.  If not, here’s an idea that may help you next year?

On New Years Eve of 1991, my business partner, Fiona Carmichael, and I created our Goal Achievers books.  We divided this book into 8 sections representing the 8 areas of our lives.  Then we set goals in each of these areas.  We not only wrote them down, we cut out pictures of everything we wanted to do, to have, and to be.  We cut out letters and words.  Then we pasted them all in our books.  We were quite lavish in our desires.

We also made a list of everything we were grateful for in our lives up to that point.  Then throughout the year, we looked at the books, noted what had taken place, and listed the things we were grateful for as they happened.  In June, we had an amazing revelation...our entire year’s goals had been completed.

This project had been so successful that we have done it every year since...and even with all the setbacks we’ve both had in our lives...loss of loved ones, cancer, moving to new homes…each year we find that the goals are achieved way ahead of schedule.

Now, we don’t think we do this all by ourselves.  When we start our session each year, we say a prayer and ask God to guide us in our goal setting and to give us the strength and the belief to handle our challenges...and each year He does.

So my recommendation is this...take advantage of all the holiday celebrations and celebrate what you have accomplished thus far in life….especially overcoming any hardships and defeats. Celebrate the past and “Focus Forward”.  Start to visualize and set your goals for 2006.  Write down everything you want to be, to do, and to have and make yourself an Image Board.  Cut out pictures of these things and paste them on it.  Display this board where you can see it daily.  Each time you notice that something has been achieved, remember to be grateful and give Thanks.

If you do this, you will have the best year of your life!

Judi Moreo

In This Issue:

• A Different Kind of Christmas Story
• Mind Workout: Magic Glasses
• What Judi's Customers Are Saying

 (This poem was sent to me by my friend, Larry Carr, in Denver. It touched my heart, so I decided to include it as my Christmas message to you. I hope it touches your heart as well.)

The embers glowed softly. In their dim light, I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, transforming the yard to a winter delight.

The sparkling lights in the tree, I believe, completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem, So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.
The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near, but I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.

Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear. I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing there in the cold and the dark of the night, a lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old, Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled, standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

"What are you doing?" I asked without fear, "Come in this moment, it's freezing out there!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve, You should be at home on this cold Christmas Eve!"
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts...to the window that danced with a warm fire's light. Then he sighed and he said, "Its really all right, I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."

"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line, that separates you from the darkest of time.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me, I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at 'Pearl on a day in December," he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram will always remember."
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam' and now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while but my wife sends me pictures...he's sure got her smile.

Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag. The red, white, and blue...an American flag.
"I can live through the cold and the being alone, away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet, I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another or lay down my life with my sister and brother who stand at the front against any and all...To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."

"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright. Your family is waiting and I'll be all right." "But isn't there something I can do, at the least, "Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?"
It seems all too little for all that you've done, For being away from your wife and your son."

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret, "Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
Fight for our rights back at home while we're gone. Stand your own watch, no matter how long!!!
For when we come home, either standing or dead. The fact you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough. With that we will know that we mattered to you…as you mattered to us!!!

BE SURE TO REMEMBER OUR GALLANT MILITARY MEN & WOMEN IN YOUR PRAYERS!!
GOD BLESS THEM AND BLESS AMERICA!

What It Is

A method used to encourage participants to look at old issues in new ways.

What You’ll Need

A pair of silly looking glasses for each team member

How It Works

Pass out the glasses right before you introduce the topic that should be looked at through “magic glasses”.  Explain that these are magic glasses which have been designed to let participants see this topic with a new perspective.

Further explain that if they find themselves looking at the topic with their old eyes anytime during the program, they should put their “magic glasses” on.

If team members feel that another team member is still using an old way of looking at things, they may ask that team member to put on her “magic glasses” or they may offer to trade “magic glasses” in order to get a different perspective.

This not only aids your team members with breaking old habits and perspective, but it is also a lot of fun!

This Mind Workout is a good way to end the year and start the new.  Ask team members to plan the new year with new perspective by looking through the “magic glasses”.

If you would like to book Judi for a presentation in 2006, she still has a few dates open in June, July, Aug., Sept. and November.  For information, contact Turning Point International, (702) 896-2228 or turningpointintl@att.net.

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