Okay gang, we’re down the wire and less than a week left to 2009!  No matter who you are or how good or bad your business has been, we all share a common theme – It’s been a hard year!   But, there’s a new year about to start and there’s nothing worse than going into January caring the burden of loose ends!

Loose ends are all those projects you’ve procrastinated about and they range from mending fences with your adversaries to cleaning up the back room of your studio.  Relax, I’m not suggesting you need to clean it all up today – but what a kick to put it down in a list and then start checking them off one at a time through January.

Remember half the battle is beating procrastination and we all do it.  We put things off waiting for the shoemaker’s elves to come in the middle of the night and clean up the mess.  Sadly the only elves who show up are the Keebler Cookie guys and they only add to your belt line!

I found this on a quotes site from Orison Swett Marden (no idea who he is, but he’s got some great lines!)

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

Okay, get out the pad of paper and make that list…I did mine a few minutes before writing this post and while I’ve made no progress, it’s at least a start!  I am however craving a bag of Keebler Cookies!