2017 was in many ways the best year to date for me.

And I know 2018 will be even better.

With that in mind, here's how I plan to have a killer New Year's Eve:

* Turn on airplane mode on my phone, so nobody can get ahold of me

* Pull out my journal and review what I achieved in 2017

* Write down how I will improve in key areas in 2018

* Read a book

* Then call it an early night well before midnight

While everyone else is up late at night damaging brain cells, I’ll be up expanding and recuperating my brain cells.

After my 9 hours of sack time, I'll wake up refreshed around 8 am, ready to hit the ground running on January 1st.

The rink where our gym is located will be closed, so I will be the sole person getting after it in the weight room.

(just like last New Year)

After that I'll head home, have an early lunch, then work on accomplishing what I wrote down in my journal last night until 7 or 8 pm.

Sound boring?

No doubt... if your definition of "having a good time" at New Year's involves copious amounts of booze and other intoxicants, making it rain in some swanky downtown nightclub with the rest of the fools.

But I know taking care of my physical and mental health is much more important than that.

Doing so will put me far ahead of the masses still nursing a brutal hangover from New Year's Eve already on Day 1 of the year.

And will set the tone for the next 364 days to come.

Wishing you a successful year,

Yunus Barisik

P.S. Come get your action plan for success in 2018 at:

http://www.NextLevelHockeyTraining.com