Your and you're are cousins to the previously blogged-about its and it's. To decide which is appropriate in your sentence, follow the same advice. Read your sentence substituting you are for you're; if it sounds right, you're is the correct word. You're is the contraction for you are.
According to Dictionary.com, your shows a possession owned or possessed by you, one, or, informally, all members of a group as in your clothes, your best best, or take your average Joe, for example.
If you are doesn't make sense in your sentence, your is your best bet.
Now you're a former you're misuser from yore.
And just in case you're tempted, yur is just a text-message abbreviation and is never appropriate in prose.
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