You say you want a Resolution?

Well, you know, we all want to change our lives…

Between 90 and 97% of us fail in our New Year’s Resolutions, right about now, 4 weeks after New Year’s Day.  Let’s not get too hung up about the 90% who fail, but rather, take a look at what it is that the 3 to 10% who succeed are doing.

Change is harder than remaining the same.  Without support, discouragement strikes in roughly 28 days, but change takes six weeks to establish.  In other words, if we can find a way to push through for only 14 more days, we can be winners.  14 little days, and yet most of us don’t make it.

You might think “Accountability” is a dirty word, but it’s really the top reason anyone succeeds at anything.  They put some kind of skin in the game, with someone they respect who will not mince words if necessary. 

Someone recently told my wife that they are trying to “learn to self-coach.”  Don’t kid yourself.  This is an Arts newsletter, so I’ll normally eschew sports analogies, but where would Michael Jordan be without Phil Jackson?  Why do major sporting organizations pay someone millions of dollars to coach people who are already experts in their field?

I ran into a guy who showed me his business plan for 2011 and his “goal” was to gross $10 mil and net $7 mil.  This wouldn’t be a problem if he grossed $8 mil last year – but he was starting from a dead standstill; he can’t afford his own lunch.  “I shoot for the moon and hit the stars,” he said, but I suspect he’ll hit the ground first, flat on his face.

I believe in coaching people to set very attainable goals.  It’s easier to achieve something small and then set your sights higher than to set them too high and get discouraged.

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