Business relationships are very similar to personal ones.

And your work life very close to your home life!

Whatever you are doing at home during this post-holiday reprieve (cleaning up, re-organizing, playing with all the new gadgets you received from Santa…), you are likely doing at the office.

It’s time to put away the wreaths and the mistletoe and start the slow process of moving forward into the new year.

What do you predict for 2008?

Take these last few days to think about where you want to be next year. Five years from now. Ten.

Take an inventory of all the things you did and didn’t get done in 2007.

In these last few days until the New Year, spend some time reflecting. Clear your head. You’ll be all the more ready to bounce back into business come January 1.