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 Ready to make some New Year’s Resolutions?  Not so fast.  They usually don’t work.  As Tony Schwartz points out in his insightful book, The Way We’re Working is Not Working, 25% of people abandon their New Year’s resolutions after one week, 60% within six months.  The average person makes the same resolution 10 separate times without success.  Wow!

Here’s a better approach.  Develop a series of clear, measurable, written objectives for 2025.  Then, break them into various subparts and assign those to specific months throughout the year. (i.e., when you’ll accomplish those parts).  Finally, refer to them as you do your weekly and daily planning throughout the year.  Those who follow this (or a similar) approach have a much, much higher rate of success.

David Allen talks about the danger of letting one’s lists (or a single master list if some just use that) get out of date.  We start to avoid interacting with them and trusting that we have “captured it all” because we haven’t.  This makes us less effective and we fall back into unhealthy habits like focusing on the urgent (rather than important) and using sticky notes, etc.  I spent some time this last weekend reviewing and tightening up my lists so everything I have or do or want to do is reflected on them.

Doing this periodically makes me feel terrific!  Why don’t you give it a try?