What's a Resolution?

“Take 100% accountability for your outcome.” - Kevin Brown

I love this time of year.  I methodically start to come out of my Important - Non Urgent season with more clarity of purpose for my mission.  

The New Year is a figurative turn of the page revealing new hope and new promises. Promises, all too often which are broken by February.

So I do understand the negative sentiment on the part of some regarding New Year’s resolutions.  If you lacked discipline for an entire year and are lying to yourself about the changes you will make based on the calendar, okay maybe resolutions aren’t for you.  

For me, it boils down to this: 

Resolutions are an admission of and commitment to defeating, as Steven Pressfield calls it, resistance. Resistance that has gotten the best of us that year.  It happens to the most disciplined among us.  

How do we adjust?

We will always have challenging events thrown our way.  That’s just life.  Our professional lives included.  To be elite, you have to find a way to overcome resistance in more instances than not.  Warning, in order to overcome resistance, you have to know where it exists in all aspects of your life. 

Set your goals then proceed to make them even more audacious.  Just know, those goals must be accompanied by a daily commitment to complete the most vital activities related to them.

As a check down… Ask yourself these 3 questions today, 

1. What needs to happen between now and December 31st that would make 2020 an incredibly amazing year?  

2. After making  ________ happen, how would that make you feel?

3. What action(s) do you need to take today so that you’re closer to that feeling?

Did you just make a New Year resolution?

Know what’s on your shortlist each day.  Focus only on what will drive you towards that feeling you want to have at the end of the year. Go crush 2020!