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.
