Welcome to the Simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. It's It seems crazy to think that 2015 is less than two weeks away and that means whether you want to set a new year's resolution or not people are

talking about it and to be honest whenever there's an opportunity to turn a page start a new start a new chapter in our lives

there's some kind of promise in that there's some kind of opportunity in that and to ignore that

I think would be akin to looking at gift

gift horse in the mouth.

Why not is my attitude?

Why not try to improve our lives?

Not only just for ourselves, but for our family,

for our relationships, for the community, for the world.

Whatever it is that you wish to improve, why not take this opportunity with the arrival of a new year?

Now some people may set their goals at different times in the year, maybe on their birthday, maybe if they are a student or a professor or a teacher, start a list of goals at the beginning of the school year, but why not if nothing else assess how you're doing and adjust as necessary.

So in today's final broadcast of 2014, I want to offer you 15 ideas to create a promising

2015. Now I don't expect you to implement all 15 of these. These are just ideas and if we could just

grasp onto three of them three of them and dive in deep to each of them we will

give ourselves the opportunity to be successful as 2015 comes to an end.

In fact, last week, if you were reading the blog, I talked about how 2014's resolutions

went for myself and I encouraged readers to share their 2014

experiences and it was wonderful I loved hearing the successes the struggles

but they each matter what the end of 2014 brought, if you read them, you'll find that each reader offered this optimistic attitude as they stepped into the new year, as if they had learned something from from 2014 whether it was from a struggle or a

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