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What are your New Year’s resolutions this year?

If you’re like many people, you’ve been giving some thought to the improvements to your relationships, body, health, finances, career and life you’d like to make in the coming year.

Though everyone’s resolutions are unique and personal, I believe that they often come to down to one word…

Freedom.

After all, a desire to earn more money, buy a new car, get a promotion and travel to exotic places all involve a sense of financial freedom.

As a child, I dreamed of being a Country & Western singer (I don’t even know if such a musical category still exists today). I would sing as I did my chores, sing as I walked to school and sing every other moment I could.  I even had a stage name picked out for myself– it was Dusty Rose, I think.

I’m not sure if my elementary school-aged self really believed that one day I would be a professional singer, but it was certainly an enchanting dream. As I got older, my aspirations for what I wanted to be changed.