Happy New Year!

The hectic pace of the holidays has kept me away from my blog for too long. I've been so busy with the trip back to North Carolina and a subsequent house guest here in Atlanta that I haven't given much thought to what my New Year's resolution should be.

There are plenty of things I'd like to manifest personally and professionally in 2008, but I'm going to follow Wayne Dyer's advice and refrain from discussing these goals and desires here.

In his terrific book, "Manifest Your Destiny," which is about the law of attraction, Dyer advises that: "What you want to attract is a private matter between yourself and God. Discussing it with others will dissipate the energy in the direction of ego and the opinions of others.

"Outwardly, be mysterious and silent while inwardly you have faith in your ability to make conscious contact with the energy that is the source of existence. Let go of the need to convince anyone of the rightness of your position. Remain independent of the good opinion of others and keep yourself fixed on your ability to attract whatever it is that you previously thought was missing in your life."