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We mark our lives by dividing our time line by years as well as months and days. Take it from a philosopher-psychologist, how we see ourselves and our lives solves a fundamental set of questions, such as:

Who am I? What am I doing here? Am I being successful surviving the challenges of my life? Am I being successful in developing my abilities, values and resources in a positive way? Am I tipping the balance in my life daily from the negative and destructive to the positive and building?

The quality of my existence itself is what counts, and marking transition points by dividing the time line into years makes sense, even though it is just an artificial mark in time, of course influenced by the cycles of the planetary seasons.

THINGS TO DO IN 2006

Whether you do them or not, it helps to give yourself focus by making lists of significant things and values. Lists show what is most relevant to you and also helps you set priorities for what you will most give your energy to in 2009. Here is a list of creative possibilities to consider, modify, add to, subtract from.

• I don’t want to hear from a bunch of you that you are simply wandering and reacting to whatever happens to you in the coming year. Make your life and year intentional. Then you are the kind of person I like to send energy to.

Your Economy – Cut out buying extravagant consumer goods not necessary to being productive. No new car, new gadgets, computers, clothes, shoes, stuff for children, unless they absolutely need such things for their well-being.

No consumer goods and services! – Buy only that which enhances your effectiveness in life that makes you more effective in the world.

Stabilize your work situation – Get out of jobs that produce consumer goods and services and into jobs that produce basic goods and services necessary to functioning of society.

Defeat negativity in your soul! – Do not stay angry at anyone, seek to take revenge by hurting others and causing them unneceary stress and fear. Do not project the “enemy projection” onto anyone and thereby justifying your own actions to be vindictive and revengeful.

Transform anger and hurt into personal change towards being with positive people and projects. Don’t hang with negative people who blame, criticise and see you as negative.

Do not kill anyone in battle or symbolically, if you can at all help it.

Do not reject anyone in relationship, either love or work, if at all possible. Just be honestly your real self with a person and the relationship will either end or grow to a new leven of value and relatedness.

Reconcile with others where the relationship is strained by giving them some positive energy, but only in ways they use your positive energy to reconcile also, and not to abuse your good will with.

End all relationships that clearly generate more negative results than positive results. Make a resolution not to waste your precious life with loosers. Don’t be so arrogant and inflated to think that you can save loosers from themselves. Let all negative personalities go away from you as you journey onward with your life.

Create at least one new and creative relationship this year, even if with the same person before. The point is to build more value into living life this coming year by contributing as positively to certain other people’s lives as you realistically can, and to your own developing life as well.

Work at two jobs this year, trying to earn income as well. Never get caught in life in having only one job to work at and bring you in income to live on. If you have only one job now, go out and find another part time job. Start now this year. What if the world economy stays lean?

Recognize that the world economy is not maybe in a recession of lost jobs, buying power and a glut of consumer goods and services. What is really happening is that the world is responding to enviormental and global pressures by trying to “go of” a consumer economy” of making and buying extras to an economy of making and giving only primary goods and services that all people need in order to live.

If you have surplus money invest it with people who create basic goods and services, and not with stock exchange people, quick-money people, money people of any kind, including banks. Use surplus personal money to create stable needed value, such as in developing land for farming and living, renovating old houses into new passive heat houses that are so well insulated they don’t need a heater, and so on.

If you do not have surplus money, still work productively every day at things of value, such as in providing services that are needed in health and quality of life, and in making for yourself real contacts that may need to a paying job in the near future.

Cultivate contacts of the right kind. Meet with and explore with people who can help you at the same time you are helping them. Develop creative projects together, some paying and some maybe not paying. Build a strong network of significant contacts but with the purpose of relating and working together.

Do not socialize in 2009. Tell parents, family and friends that you don’t have time to sit around and talk, or go on expensive vacations, even if they pay for the vacation. Tell them instead that you have to put all your free time into making yourself stronger for handling a lean and crisis economy that could go on for years this way.

If friends and family still want to meet with you regularly say that may only be possible if you work together on something that makes money for you both. This can include cleaning out the parents’ attic and selling the old stuff at flea markets, if anyone will pay for such “junk.”

If parents or friends have extra money or value in houses and real estate, tell them that you would like to share in that money value and create with it things of value, whether getting further training so you can work another kind of job, or improving a run-down house that you both buy cheaply.

It should always be part of life that your adult relationships are never just social, sitting around talking and drinking beer, but that your adult relationships are for planning and carrying out projects of value.

If your friends, parents or family don’t like your productivity relating, then junk them. They make themselves useless to society and you with extravagant consumerism ideas and values.

Give up as much as possible “complaining in 2009.” Complaining about things not being right or going your way is non-productive, energy draining, and bad for your fulfillment in life. Don’t complain and don’t associate with complainers, who can always find things wrong in you and life to be negative about.

Associate only with people of integrity and good will who are creative and generous in problem-solving situations that matter to you and to them. If they won’t problem-solve but try to deceive and complain, get rid of them now.

Don’t associate with blamers as well as complainers. These are people who tear themselves down inside and try to bring you down with them. Don’t get involved with them. Find other solutions to what you have been relating to them for.

Above all, strive to be centered, active, peaceful, problem-solving, enthusiastic about real opportunities, committed to the work required to maintain a sustaining life, seek improvement in knowledge and effectiveness.

Don’t be forgiving! Forgiveness is a luxury in hard times. Be decisive instead. If someone keeps not measuring up to the mark, fire them from your life and projects. You are better served in the short and long run not to be with people draining your energy or deceiving you about how much they are working hard for you, or how much they like you as a friend.

Always focus on actions and not the talk. Do they talk the walk, or do they walk the talk? Ah, if we could only act on the one axiom in life how different and better would our lives be!

Pay for what you get, and give to get. Don’t manipulate. Don’t deceive. Better an honest relationship and return on your investment in time and energy than to play around with deceivers who do not act the way their words should mean.

Make 2009 your battle ground. List your key problems in the outer life, but also your own attitudes you need improving.

Challenging times mean special regard to change yourself to adapt to sometimes radical conditions. Problem-solve. Seek realistic allies of good well tested in experience. Don’t fool yourself any longer than you do by projecting good thoughts and hopes about a possible friendship. Results are what count, and only positive results coming in show you and others what the quality of a relationship really is.

• Forgive but never forget.
• Trust but never fail to see the truth.
• Make honest statements but check to see if the other person understands things in the same way you do.
• Spend on necessities but not on any extravagances.
• Live in the real world, and not in your hopes and dreams.

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