What Are You Going To Stop Doing In 2012?
The beginning of a new year
is always that time when we begin to think of making changes in our lives.
We want it to be different to
how it was last year.
We think back on all that
didn’t happen, in spite of our best intentions. We rarely, however, stop to ask
why it didn’t happen.
We resolve to do better this
year. We make a list of goals, what we are going to do differently, to change
our lives before December 31, 2012. I'm going to motivate a different challenge for you this year.
Write a list of what you are
going to stop doing this year.
Start with answering the
question:
- Why didn’t I achieve what I wanted to achieve in 2011?
- What were the unimportant
activities that you spent too much time on last year and then didn’t have time
for what was most important to you?
- Who were the important people
in your life – friends, family and colleagues – that you didn’t spend time with
as a result?
- Who were the people with whom
you spent too much time last year, but who contributed nothing to you
becoming a better person either personally or professionally?
- What were the committees you
sat on that produced little in the way of outcomes and wasted a great deal of
your time?
- What about all those
networking events you went to that have questionable value for you?
- Did the time you spent on
Facebook, LinkedIn or Google+ really prove valuable?
- What could you have done or
achieved with all the time you spent watching TV last year?
Write what you are going to stop
doing.
Focus yourself towards what
is in your own best interests to do with that extra time.
You have all the time in the
world. It flies, but you are the pilot. Steer your new year. Make it what you want it to be!
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