The No BS Guide to New Year’s Resolutions
Cohort members ask me all the time how to create New Year’s Resolutions that stick. Here’s the one resolution I’ve managed to keep for over a decade:
Stop making New Year’s Resolutions.
You don’t need no stinkin’ resolutions. You need a vision you can believe in and a plan to make it happen. We all want to be healthy, trim, connected to our loved ones, and doing the work we love, and if simply writing these wishes down were all it took, we’d all be basking in the good life with time and money to spare.
And very few of us are.
It’s because simply resolving to be a better version of yourself isn’t enough. You need to be able to see yourself crossing the finish line on that 10k, buttoning the top button on those jeans, clinking glasses with your spouse during a real, unplugged family vacation, and shaking hands with your biggest client yet. You need to harness that vision and feeling ahead of time so you can reverse engineer the strategy to get there.
I promise that strategy is a lot easier once that vision is lodged firmly in place. After all, it’s a lot easier to plot a course to the life you want if you feel like you’ve already done it.
Onward,
Bill
Scientists believe we experience real-world and imaginary situations in similar ways, thus giving us the ability to condition and train neural pathways to pave a smoother path toward what we want. Think about one goal you’d like to accomplish in the next 90 days and perform the following visualization exercise.
Maintain perspective. This is your vision, so you should engage as the star of the show, not the audience.
Go through the motions. Spare no detail. Imagine trying to perfect a golf swing. Take yourself through every single step from how your hands feel on the grip to the sound of the club hitting the ball. In some of your visualizations, they should take as long to execute in your mind as it does to actually do it.
Employ all of your senses. Immerse yourself in the moment you are achieving your goal as if you are actually there. What does it feel, smell, look, and sound like?
Put it in writing. Capturing this feeling and process in words will help hone your efforts. (Keep reading for a free tool).
Step 1: Take your list of New Year’s Resolutions and throw them in the trash.
Step 2: Download my 3 Year Desired Future worksheet
Step 3: Plan a date with your partner-in-crime (or yourself) and get ready to create the life you’ve always imagined, starting in now.
Do you know where you want your company to be one year from today? That’s a question everyone in our Cohort can answer—with a game plan on how they are going to get there. Find out where to start here.
