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How Do You Set a Mission Statement and or a New Year's Resolution or Goal for You and or Your Company, Seven Steps to Achieve Your Goals. Seven Steps to Achieve Your New Years Resolution.


What is your New Year's Resolution and or What are your goals for the new year and how do you achieve them?

 

I do two-day team building workshops with the C-Suites Executives of a company. As part of that program, I help them create or update their company Mission Statement and set goals to achieve and maintain their mission statement as well as help the individual set a personal resolution for the year. Here are some of the tools I use in the workshops and in my business that may help you achieve your New Year's Resolutions.

 

1    Post your resolutions/goals above your desk and or put them on your laptop and or on your paper planner. Read it/them each morning. When you have to make any difficult decisions and or you find you aren’t getting anything done read it again.

Set up a time to check in and see if your resolution is working for you and if your behaviors are in alignment with them. ng in with their resolution to see if it was in alignment. Give yourself permission to change your resolution if it’s not serving you.

2)    When setting a resolution for your work you may want to ask your clients/customers for feedback to determine WHAT to work on. I teach this to my clients and do this myself. In December I call all my clients from the previous year and ask for their feedback on how my team and I served them and what we can do better. That helps me determine my resolution and goals for the next year.

3)    I have a one-sentence Resolution that changes each year. Yours can be as simple as, “How can I best serve others in this moment?”  “Choose what will bring you peace.” “What is the most important thing to work on at this moment to make my business successful?” “What can I do today to become the go-to expert in body language and nonverbal communication.”  the go-to expert in your field?”, “Chose Joy” and “Say yes to adventure.” “Do what brings you wealth and happiness.”

 

4)     Share your statement with someone. You can get a Resolution Partner, a Mastermind Group, or a friend. You don’t have to do more than share it but it helps to plan a time say twice a year, once a month or so to share your challenges and successes around your resolution and goals.

 

5)    “Calendar Out” your resolution and goals. Break them down and set daily time to achieve them. Go through your entire calendar year and set aside specific days times, and amounts of time to work on your goals.  

 

6)    The fifteen-minute tool. I teach my clients that consistently planned work on tasks to achieve their resolution/goal and doing it at the same time each day and for a certain amount of time makes it easy to do the task and it pays off.

 

For example, each morning I spend 15 minutes or more if I have time, working on a task that can help me achieve my mission. For example, years ago when I was working on the resolution to become one of the top body language experts in the country, I set aside 15 minutes each morning to check the news for any top story that could be related to body language and write a blog post about it. I did that for FIVE YEARS and that led to being contacted by the media, a job as a national spokesperson for Wrigley’s Gum, my first national TV interview on Regis and Kelly, and regular guest segments on other news shows, and change in my keynote status and fees to “Expert Speaker.”  The joke was some of my colleagues said I suddenly became an “overnight success.”

 7)    Pair gratitude with your resolution and goals. I recommend using a gratitude journal that also has a space to set daily, weekly, and monthly goals and if they work in a creative field, space to do Julia Cameron’s “Morning Pages. Morning pages get rid of the garbage thoughts, worries, and concerns that keep you from working effectively.

 

 

 

Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.