Resolutions Are Crap
Did that get your attention?
I’m not doing any resolutions this New Year.
They don’t work.
But what does work?
That’s a great question.*
* * *
* One that I work on all the time.
If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough. – Vince Lombardi If you’re not making mistakes: you’re playing it safe; you’re playing small; you’re not using all your talents and abilities; you’re wasting the gift that is your life; you’re living in a way that you’ll feel guilty about later; you’re . ….
Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out. Tennessee Williams The Japanese word Kaizen means (small and continuous) improvement. The making better of things, over time. Rather than confronting issues, problems and long-festering wounds “head-on” with a Hollywood-action-movie-like-grandiosity, what if you identified a particular component of an issue or problem or long-festering wound and took…
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. – Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi I love how this sentiment democratizes discovery. It becomes something anyone can do, in regards to anything. You could be a discoverer. Anyone can. How does that shift you? How does change how you look at the world?…
Last week I stated my intention to weigh 195 pounds on, or before, Sunday November 17th. It did not not happen Did I fail? Nope. In fact I learned some things about myself and what doesn’t work. My diet was poor and did not support…
Trustworthy. Respectable. Admirable. * * * Leadership, more than anything, is a personal relationship between leader and led. It’s not a hierarchical relationship, where one person has power and the other none. Sure, a leader must be technically savvy and proficient, s/he must know “the business,” but at its core, its most fundamental, leadership is…
I just read an article by a mentor of mine that got me to thinking. The article talked about why one of his clients was having such a hard time, whether or not his past success was a fluke and if he could create it again going forward. His client conceded that he was, at…
Comments are closed.
No resolutions here, either! What does work? Make a goal, then make a realistic plan as to how you’re going to meet that goal, and then executing the plan (and reviewing and revising along the way).
That’s what works for me 🙂