You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery episode number 66.

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This episode of voice acting mastery falls near the end of the year in 2013, and in most of the Western world, the holidays are upon us.

During the holiday season, many people spend time with family and loved ones.

This also tends to be a time when people look back over the year and evaluate what they've accomplished.

Many begin to look forward to the new year

and to think about what they hope to achieve in the future. It's a time for year-end planning

and New Year's resolutions. It's also a good opportunity to do some mental house cleaning

while you visualize your goals for the new year. So, in the spirit of planning for another orbit around our sun,

I thought I would share with you my experiences and insights

when it comes to getting motivated to accomplish your goals.

And now, the feature segment.

If you're anything like me, you may have mixed feelings about the end of the year.

While I'm certainly proud of my many accomplishments, I can't shake the feeling that maybe I could have gotten more things done, or made more progress towards my goals.

I'm sure many of my listeners feel the same. Perhaps there are projects that you hope to accomplish in the past

year that didn't come to fruition, or dreams that you wanted to realize that haven't quite

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