Money

We start 2010 discussing the third constraint -- money.

If you have unlimited money, you can do practically anything. A group in Dubai just completed the world's largest building in just under six years. They spent lavishly to get it done on time. Movie companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on special effects to make things like space travel and alien worlds realistic.

On a personal level, if you feel you're not being noticed at work and have enough money you can give yourself a complete makeover: New clothes, hairstyle, even plastic surgery. You can take classes to improve your skills, or just to learn a new hobby. If you have enough money to buy whatever you want you probably don't need to become the star of your own life: you probably are already.

But most of us don't have unlimited money to promote ourselves and our ideas. Fortunately, the online world provides us with tools that enable us to do this at very low cost. For example, you can start your own blog, as I have, for free. You can connect with friends and colleagues through Facebook, Linked In, and a plethora of other social networking sites. You can send news releases about your activities to just about every news organization in the world for free. You can create your own website, marketing yourself to the world. The tools are there for you to use them.

Make 2010 the year you decided to star in your own life!