One reason people do not get ahead in life is because they fail to make a decisive commitment to leave their old life behind.

They may be unhappy, indeed even miserable, in their present circumstances but continue to stay the course in a thankless and lifeless existence.

They stick to a daily routine that isn’t working.

I challenge you if you are one of those people to think of yourself as an onion and shed those papery remnants of your former life. Peel away the layers – the years – of mindless living to be ready for the New You.

Or consider yourself a wall with countless layers of paint and start scraping away the failures, mistakes, and disappointments of your former life to make way for the next sixty years or however long you have left.