Are you on track with your New Year Resolutions?
We are now more than halfway through the year 2007. Most people by now have completely forgotten about the goals they made at the beginning of the year. For the most, they changed their goals and direction informally, and never made it official. Could this be the case with you? Did you just drop your goals without making it official? It is understable that you may have had to shift direction and change your goals. Flexibility is critical to your success in today’s fast paced ever-changing world, but when you decide to change direction, it’s important to make it official.
Why is it important to make it official? I’m glad you asked. If you don’t announce new goals, and admit you are no longer pursuing the previous ones, it becomes too easy to slip and slide from one set of objectives to another. This slipping and sliding makes you lose your credibility, your accountability to those around you suffers, and you begin to tread on ”The Path of Least Resistance.” Pretty soon this becomes a pattern and habit in your life. To you it might seem all right, because you were not serious about those goals and resolutions anyway.
Were the goals you set at the beginning of the year serious to you? In order to cultivate a winner’s mentality you have to make it official that you changed directions. This will prepare you for even greater success in pursuing future goals and directions.
