This year, my co-author and I are challenging our friends, family and business colleagues with the Fire Your Excuses December Challenge. Instead of raising the perennial “white flag” at Thanksgiving only to take up the assault again in January, we decided to commit to 20 workouts in the month of December. You can be sure that I will be enjoying some delicious holiday fare this season, on both coasts, but our growing team has decided that doing the post-New Years “get back into shape” dance is not in the cards for us this year. If you are interested in joining us in the December Challenge, we’d love to know. It may just help you enter 2015 in the best shape in years. Are you in?

But let’s take this challenge a step further. Without a doubt, there are corporate and personal career goals you may be tempted to delay until the start of the new year. What is still on your 2014 to-do list? Why not slide into the end of the holiday season having finished strong and accomplished many of those goals. In fact, for some, December might just turn out to be the most productive month of your year.

I was challenged by a recent quote: “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

Blessings to all and Happy Holidays!