Happy New Year to all WiNfluence followers! As we start off a new year and a new decade it is important to set goals for yourself both professionally and personally.

Click on this wonderful new and free e-book, What Matters Now, put together by Seth Godin, with a little help from his friends. Godin asked many people to contribute by choosing a theme and providing their insights on that theme. It is well worth the read and I hope it will inspire you to come up with some great goals for the year ahead.

I’m sharing with you some of the professional goals I am setting for 2010, which came from inspiration in Godin’s e-book.

• I will become an evangelist helping to educate the industry on the value of having women involved at all levels of the organization.
• I will help the industry recognize that diverse teams work for everyone and having a balance of different strengths on one team is what team work is really all about, helping to eliminate ‘group think.’
• I will be more generous with my time and try and help others be successful, understanding that helping people develop their strengths instead of working on their weaknesses works best.
• I will risk more and fear less. I will change the motto from "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" TO "if it ain't broke - break it."
• When speaking I will try and build more passion into my topics and use less over-laden slides with too much information.
• I will listen more and talk less.
• I will thank people more for helping me be successful and I will celebrate successes and focus on how to make things work better and focus less on things that don't work.

Share your goals for 2010 with followers of WiNfluence by leaving a comment. What goals will help you be successful in 2010?