Shrink Rap: New Year's Resolutions and Predictions

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, time stays, we go.

-- Henry Austin Dobson

We enter the new year with rather dismal economic and market conditions, accompanied by an aggravated and unstable geopolitical scene. In the face of this, we optimistically hope that 2003 will offer something more promising than the rocky and precarious road we've traveled so far in the new millennium.

I've never been a big fan of New Year's resolutions, knowing all too well how easily good intentions can quickly end up creating guilt, performance pressure and failure. ...