Here's the easiest self-coaching system of all time. Ask yourself these two questions: What’s working for me to achieve my goal? What do I need to change to make it possible, easier or faster to achieve this goal? Two very simple questions. Two very powerful answers. Think about any goal you have, and ask yourself these two questions every day. Then add two more to your list for the next day’s planning:

So far, President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet and White House appointments have had a “dog in the nighttime” effect on Republicans. The selections, like the intruder in the Sherlock Holmes mystery, haven’t made them bark.

Job hunting is tough right now, but absolutely not impossible. The key to finding and keeping work in tough times is the same as in good times: action. The more positive action you take, the better your chances of landing a great gig. Here are 7 tips, and I promise many more in the coming weeks and months.

It's not going to be the Bowl Championship Series title game in sunny Miami. That dream died at Michigan. It's not going to be the Rose Bowl in sunny Pasadena, Calif. That dream died against Ohio State. It's not going to be a New Year's Day Bowl in sunny Florida. That dream died against Penn State and Iowa. It's not even going to be the Alamo Bowl in sunny San Antonio. That dream, such as it was, died at Michigan State.

Hunting season is still open in December. Muzzleloader deer hunting continues statewide Dec. 1 to Dec. 10.

Just before dawn Saturday, 631,223 hunters hit the woods with a license intent on bagging a deer as Wisconsin's annual nine-day gun deer hunt opened. Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank was out in south central Wisconsin visiting deer hunters and DNR staff at registration stations on opening morning of Wisconsin's annual nine-day gun deer season.

Some parts of far northern Wisconsin received up to several inches of snow last weekend, with the Hurley area in Iron County reporting 5 inches, but the snow cover had all melted by mid week. The leaf drop is now nearly complete in southern Wisconsin, with mostly oaks still holding leaves. Smaller lakes, bays and ponds in the north have continued their trend toward ice up. Water temperatures have fallen into the low 40s and, with single-digit temperatures in the last few nights, some ponds and small lakes have developed a thin layer of skim ice.

An anonymous tipster forwarded this memo regarding an ESPN commercial that features various students calling people around the country to get them to watch more College Basketball. Seems like a basic concept right? Well wait until you read what the Casting Director is looking for from each individual acting as students from various Universities....