Are you determined to keep your potentially successful 2011 New Year's resolutions? If you manage to do well, than 90% of the remaining people have failed. What tips for 2011 and a new you can you list to guarantee successful resolutions to start the New Year?

Write down your goals for the New Year and commit to these goals. Tell you family and friends what your intentions are and why you want to keep your New Year's resolutions.

Create a plan that will guarantee success. In your mind's eye, envision success and work backwards towards the present. Decide how to make your 2011 New Year's resolutions a winner.

If there are goals that have failed for you in the past, why hang onto them? Create new goals and a goal list, asking yourself the reasons you want to lose weight and whether a goal is in keeping with your daily needs and purposes in life.

We all need reminders and the listed tips for 2011 and a soon to be new you is a good enough reason to list your goals on a bathroom mirror, on your cell phone and any place else you can think of. You will need to visualize yourself, at least once a day, the end result of following your 2011 New Year's resolutions.

2011 new year, new decade - let's make a difference in Baton Rouge and our community - Happy New Year!