I don’t know about you, but when I hear anyone utter anything about new year’s resolutions, I sigh. Sometimes internally, often externally. It’s not because I don’t want people to have goals and better themselves in the new year, it’s just that, well, there’s a lot of evidence that resolutions don’t work. Never being one for small talk, I feel like resolutions without a plan are a bit of a waste of time and energy… but you can’t say that to people who don’t get it, can you?
As a business coach and mentor who works with businesses and individuals around achieving their goals and developing themselves, I don’t want to be “that person” who launches into a lecture whenever there’s an opportunity, or tells people why their vague resolution is unlikely to succeed, but it’s the truth. As one of my objectives for this year is to help people understand more about how they can achieve their goals (actually, I’ve written a whole book, You’ve Got This, about this), this seems like a good place to start.
