Today, New Year's Day, is the traditional time for resolutions that are intended to make each of us a better person.
Unfortunately, all too many of these are excessively ambitious and soon abandoned. The result is that nothing changes. The key may well be modesty: eat a little less rather than try to lose twenty pounds, walk a little more rather than go to the gym every day. Turning off the telephone for an hour or two, every now and then, is a major stress reliever.
The BIG ONE - quitting smoking - is an all or nothing affair but ignore improved health - an amorphous concept - and focus on the money to be saved.
If we all made quite modest lifestyle changes, the impact on America's health care bills and, probably, our happiness would be significant.
Enough of the lecture. Enjoy 2010.
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- Mr. Elliot is a founding partner of Collingwood Partners, LLC. He has been an independent management, mergers and acquisitions, finance, and business consultant since 1979. His clients have included government contractors, manufacturing, service, research and development, financial, professional, and banks. He specializes in assisting small and rapidly growing companies with strategic planning, financial management and the management of growth both organically and by acquisition. Mr. Elliot was born and educated in the United Kingdom. He immigrated to the United States in 1968 becoming a naturalized citizen in 1991. He graduated from the University of Cambridge (England) with a BA (Hons) in Agricultural Science and an MA in Agricultural Economics. In addition to his other responsibilities, Mr. Elliot serves as an International Judge for the sport of sailboat racing.
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