I don’t wish to alarm you, but there are only ten weeks left of 2009!

In two-and-a-half months’ time, you’ll be all dressed up and singing Auld Lang Syne.

This is the perfect time to set a '10-week goal'.

Visualise yourself on New Year’s Eve - whether you’ll be painting the town red or watching the fireworks on TV in your PJs – and write down one thing that you want to change about your life between now and then. It’s a crazy time of year, so make it easily achievable over a ten-week period. Maybe it’s to lose a dress size, to spring clean the spare room, or to overhaul your CV. Whatever it is, know that you’ll feel better going into 2010 with it done.