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Never let your mind underestimate just how far your feet are willing to take you. This article about goals was inspired by a memorable client named Andra. She hired me as her coach to help her mentally prepare for a two-day, 39-mile walk event to end breast cancer.

There were other criteria we were coaching to as well, but this was one of those big, audacious goals where she was starting off with a flutter of possibility in her heart and a big gulp in her throat.

The days roll by and sometimes you might wonder, "What did I do today? Did I get any closer to my goals and dreams?" Life gets busy and you get focused on what has to be done, not what you want to do. Your goals could be anything from finally losing those last 5 pounds to changing your career or moving to a new location.

Maybe every January you make the resolution that, "This year will be the year," but before you know it December rolls around and you are making the same resolution for next the year.

If you and your spouse are experiencing the heartbreak of losing a loved one, you are undoubtedly filled an emptiness, sadness, confusion and the uncertainty of your new world with this new void. How do you accept your own feelings and the myriad of stress-related issues, much less support your spouse with their grief? This is a crucial time in your marriage. It’s a time for bonding, for sharing, for open communication, extra patience and becoming a true partner, a team, in the process of making sense of a situation that is filled with questions and often indescribable emotions.

How are your New Year's Resolutions going? Are you successfully achieving your goals? Or have you failed already? If you are in the miniscule percentage of people who are successfully achieving your goals, congratulations!

For everyone else, don't give it a second thought if you have already failed and have decided, "To heck with that stuff anyway!"

New Year's Resolutions are a set-up for failure. Changing anything in life when you do so with intention is hard enough, never mind trying to change something based on faulty thinking and faulty planning.

How do you achieve happiness? Specifically, the kind that lasts all day? Robert Frost wrote, "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." While this is a beautiful aphorism depicting the spirit of the human condition, there are many concrete strategies to assist you in making happiness go the distance.

Clearly, you have opportunities for accomplishment on many levels, however, happiness is something you must accomplish for yourself. When it comes to your personal joy, you don’t have to wait for external events like buying a house, your daughter getting into Harvard or earning a promotion at work.

One of the greatest desires married couples have is to stay together forever and have a happy, healthy relationship. But what about past hurts with your spouse that you can’t let go? Are you finding that because of these hurts you have more pain than happiness in your relationship?

When you get hurt by your partner, you lose trust and may even feel betrayed. "If he really loved me, he wouldn’t hurt me!" After being hurt many times over, your emotions tend to close up, and your heart, in turn, shuts down your ability to be intimate, both sexually and verbally. Your partner then becomes more of a roommate than a spouse, with conversations turning from intimate exchanges to logistic-specific dialogues like,