If you haven’t picked up January’s issue of Oprah’s magazine, you’re missing out on the best New Year’s motivational piece I’ve  yet to read. I’ve read many motivational writers’ books and listened to their spiels. The message always seems to be “if you do as I say, you can be as rich, as svelte, as healthy and as successful as I am.”

           

Bless Oprah! She sounds just like me. She has dropped off the wagon, gained back much of her weight and is starting over. She learns from her failures. Now that is what I call a heroine.

 

She talks about finding balance in her life. I know what she means. If the job comes first, everything else goes by the wayside. Writers hardly come up for air as that deadline looms closer. I’ve just finished the second book in a new Victorian three part series and I can see in the mirror I’ve gone to pot. This can’t be me!

 

Same with Oprah.

 

If you are in the same boat, do yourself a favour. Read the January issue of  O, The Oprah Magazine 

 

Finding balance. That’s my New Year’s resolution for 2009.

 

P.S. Starting January 12, for 2 weeks, I’ll be the guest on Ask the Author forum on Romantic Times web site. Ask the Author. Hope to see you there.