When this article has gone online, I?m guessing we are starting to feel that time has flown and the year is almost over, but how many of us have made New Years resolutions to change the way we live, work, eat, socialize and go about our day-to-day lives?

As an airline pilot, I have chosen that this year aside from getting fit and making time to spend with my folks, I will be able to endeavor to for all time discover the age old query that had tormented humankind for centuries? Where does belly button fluff come from?

Has anybody asked herself why do we wait till the beginning of a new year, a birthday, and an important landmark in our lives before we make these changes?

Its has been proved that generally we tend to convince ourselves that by making a change at a set point in time, hoping to turn over a new leaf that life will be excellent and therefore the changes we feel have to be made, will achieve success. Unfortunately for us simple mortals in the aviation industry this idea process sometimes leads to one end result, having the same resolutions the following year.

So what can we do to extend our success of making changes to our lives? First off the chances of success increase with the necessity of the change, either perceived or required. You can not expect to make changes if way down inside you don't actually care on the outcome or if it's just because someone asked you to. For those of us in the aviation industry, to maintain our airline jobs the necessity to keep your medical is a little high!

Second, change can be made at anytime; we don?t need to hang around for a memorable day to fire an alteration in our way of life including waiting for a new day to start before we make modifications.

For those among us who've tried to diet, hands up who felt that if we break the diet with a lapse of judgment (we could say with a tim-tam for afternoon tea) that we then think the day is a write off, so we may as well take a trip to McDonalds for dinner and start afresh the day after? (Please tell me it?s not just me). But psychological specialists say this is a standard thought process for those attempting to diet and in reality for most of us trying to make a few changes, if we ruin one day in general we tend to think, ?I?ll start again tomorrow and all will be ok? This thought process however leads to the issues many of us face. We never make change.

There aren't any magic beans, no simple way out, unfortunately change is tricky and if it is vital to us, we will become successful. All it takes is embrace your targets, take accountability for your actions, and with a little luck we will achieve what we set out to finish. Good luck everyone and have a great 2013.

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