How To Start the New Year

Many of you will have already seen Mary Abraham’s blog post Find Your Focus. This is a great summary not of new year’s resolutions, but rather how to maintain those resolutions.

I am a big fan of the “new year’s goals”. The problem with resolutions is that they are yes-or-no propositions. “I resolve to go running at least 3 times a week” - then the first week in which you don’t achieve it that’s it, you’ve already failed so you may as well give up. Instead, a goal of completing a 10K run by the winter, on the other hand, is something you have to keep working on until at least the winter.

A couple more posts on the goals vs. resolutions idea, and pointers for setting goals you will reach, can be found on the DumbAgent blog, as well as Kevin Rose’s lists of successes and failures in his own resolutions each year.