What is your theme for this year!?

Here we are seven weeks into 2010. Most, if not all of us made some commitment to ourselves when the New Year rolled around. It might have taken the form of, "this year I'm going to transform my personal finances," "I'm going to join a gym," "start a healthy nutrition program," "lose weight," "run a marathon" or "I'm going to become super successful in my career." Regardless of what it was, you probably made some kind of resolution.

I share this from the perspective that it's easy to simply state an "I am going to" or an "I will" – most of us have the noblest of intentions in following through with them. What I've found in the past five years of coaching clients to better health and wellness is that it works best to have "theme" for the year. I've set my personal and professional them for 2010 as "Back to the Basics."

After spending a few hours in reflection of what didn't work very well and what worked really well in 2009, I came to this simple conclusion: it's all about the