[911Rob]

This is all very fine, but truthfully I'd rather spend my time thinking about how I'm going to succeed in these times than predict how bad its gonna get? No offence, seems to be the popular consensus this past 6 months.

Prior to the last half of 2008 I would spend about 15 minutes or so, 3 times per week on freshening my positive mental attitude (PMA). However, since September '08 I started spending an hour per day and sometimes two hours!!!

Garbage in, Garbage out. So it's all fine and dandy to take in all the negative, but you must realize that for every bit of negative you take in requires some gymn time excercising with positive.

I suggest land investments myself; I cashed out over 7 years ago and put it all into RE; then about 3 years ago I only made moves that I could live with for a minimum of 10 years expecting the so called 'burst' of the bubble. This recent burst was only a "correction" where I live. When people start losing money, then its a burst. I'm holding onto the 'correction' wave and hope to see things move upward very soon, stabilizing this bottom.

Land I say, buy Land. I would never buy another stock in a company that I wasn't the President of again! Never.

So what are you're plans for success in 2009?