We are now more than one month into the new year.  That may not seem like much but I find it is vitally important to recalibrate your direction on a regular basis.  If not, you find that you have been miserable for a long time and never even noticed, or that everything is wonderful and that you haven’t really been appreciating it.  I have been at both places.

If you find you aren’t happy or heading in the direction you want to go, this is the time to start changing gears.  Start spending more time and focus on what you really want instead of what you think you should be doing.  Life passes quickly and while we don’t all have to make radical changes all the time, we do need to make sure we move incrementally closer to where we want to be every day.

Sometimes major changes need to…