Tutorial Ditch The Resolutions

Posted on Jan 25, 2008 09:35:08 PM

Admin wrote: Welcome to January, the stern sister to December. While December is about gift giving and celebration, January arrives like the dreaded morning after bearing with it bill payments, back-to-work anxiety and of course the latest batch of New Year’s resolutions: “I will lose weight, build up my Linked-In network, post to my blog twice a week, go to the gym, and meet my billable hours target.” There has got to be a better way to herald the New Year then marching to the orders of our inner drill sergeant.I’m a professional business coach, goals and resolutions are the heart of my business, so trust me when I tell you, this year ditch the resolutions and abandon the guilt. Life’s too short! Replace all the gloom and puritanical posturing with some first class day dreaming, the kind you did as a kid. What do you want to be when you grow up? There’s always something new to learn, or see, or do. What to you want to get out of 2008? When you are raising your glass to bring in the New Year what do you want to look back on? Compelling and inspiring goals are the key ingredients of a fulfilling and successful professional life. They encourage creativity. They provide the challenge and the meaning that is so easy to lose when life get busy.Goals also help us determine what to invest our time and money on—blogs, social networks, the latest PDA—what’s it going to be? Setting a few goals at the beginning of the year helps us to ensure we stay on top of what’s most important.Daydreaming and goal setting transformed my friend David’s practice. A few years ago he had all the outward trimmings of success: He made partner in his mid-thirties, was happily married with two kids. There was just one problem: he was bored and depressed. He was completely unmotivated. …
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