My OperaNew Year Resolutions
Thursday, December 30, 2010 8:18:32 PM
There are no real resolutions without clearly stated and measurable objectives. And there are no objectives without a well defined action plan to reach them...There is no progress or magic plan without diligent control of action plan...and there is no diligent control without the leading power and motivation to stick to your goals.
Yes this is Management....New Year Resolutions can become a reality when you apply management to your own life. Start by writing clear objectives that you can meassure. It won't help you to say that on the next year you want to look better or have better finance management or lose weight, or get more organized, or have more friends, or have a better life. All those resolutions are vague and ambiguous. They do not help or guide your actions to reach them and do not tell you what you will see to know that you reached them. It is better for example to say: " By the end of the year I will have saved at least 10 000.00. By the end of the year I will have lost at least 3 kilos. I will do exercise for 10 minutes every other day; except on holidays...Clear objectives need to:
1. Have a time limit or scope to be able to check them.
2. Must say how much or it is good to be satisfied...(kilos lost, amount of money,number of rooms organized, days to work out and time to do it.
Once you have your objectives you make a plan to reach them. This is the group of actions that will help you reach them. Most of the things we want to change depend on our personal habits that have been part of our lifes for a long time. You do not change your habits overnight. This is one of the main reasons for most New Year resolutions to last no more than January for many people...You can break up the Big objective into little steps per month that can help you change the habits. If it is to do exercise it might be worth to consider in your plan to work with other people that can help you and motivate you when you do not have much will to stick to the action plan. The life coach is the professional that can help you with all type of objectives but your husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, best friend or neighborh can also make it. Action Plans must always be flexible and offer a number of alternatives when one of the actions doesn't work or is not properly performed... For example in your action plan you can consider to do exercise 10 minutes in the morning before having the shower to go to work, but if one day you wake up late, you are too tired or is not possible for any other reason to do it, you must consider doing it that one day at night, or doing some extra the following day. These fexible alternatives help you stick to the plan without feeling guilty, or bad about not being able to accoplish the actions planned. However that flexibility should be available for the special... difficult situations...not just every other day or everytime you are not in the mood to stick to your plan. The purpose of the plan is to change habits and there is no habit change without persistance and continuous action.
The control of the plan helps you meassure the little achievements to motivate your actions or guide the necessary changes on the way. When a plan is not working...if you keep waking up late every morning... then you have to do exercise at night or get into a gym and go there after work...In this case you must do all the necessary changes to the plan in order to reach the objectives. The purpose is not to feel bad and quit right away because it is IMPOSSIBLE. Nothing is impossible if you insist enough.
Leadership and motivation. There is always someone out there around us that has the motivation we do not. To do something we would like to do. Get close to them, observe them, learn from them. Read motivational books. Look for professional coaching...a nutriologist, a physical trainer, a finance manager. Make a resolutions board with pictures of what you want to get and look at them everyday. Mark there the ones you have got, prize your achievements with little gifts to yourself. But never ...ever ever give up on you and your New Year Resolutions....
Good luck!!!
Yes this is Management....New Year Resolutions can become a reality when you apply management to your own life. Start by writing clear objectives that you can meassure. It won't help you to say that on the next year you want to look better or have better finance management or lose weight, or get more organized, or have more friends, or have a better life. All those resolutions are vague and ambiguous. They do not help or guide your actions to reach them and do not tell you what you will see to know that you reached them. It is better for example to say: " By the end of the year I will have saved at least 10 000.00. By the end of the year I will have lost at least 3 kilos. I will do exercise for 10 minutes every other day; except on holidays...Clear objectives need to:
1. Have a time limit or scope to be able to check them.
2. Must say how much or it is good to be satisfied...(kilos lost, amount of money,number of rooms organized, days to work out and time to do it.
Once you have your objectives you make a plan to reach them. This is the group of actions that will help you reach them. Most of the things we want to change depend on our personal habits that have been part of our lifes for a long time. You do not change your habits overnight. This is one of the main reasons for most New Year resolutions to last no more than January for many people...You can break up the Big objective into little steps per month that can help you change the habits. If it is to do exercise it might be worth to consider in your plan to work with other people that can help you and motivate you when you do not have much will to stick to the action plan. The life coach is the professional that can help you with all type of objectives but your husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, best friend or neighborh can also make it. Action Plans must always be flexible and offer a number of alternatives when one of the actions doesn't work or is not properly performed... For example in your action plan you can consider to do exercise 10 minutes in the morning before having the shower to go to work, but if one day you wake up late, you are too tired or is not possible for any other reason to do it, you must consider doing it that one day at night, or doing some extra the following day. These fexible alternatives help you stick to the plan without feeling guilty, or bad about not being able to accoplish the actions planned. However that flexibility should be available for the special... difficult situations...not just every other day or everytime you are not in the mood to stick to your plan. The purpose of the plan is to change habits and there is no habit change without persistance and continuous action.
The control of the plan helps you meassure the little achievements to motivate your actions or guide the necessary changes on the way. When a plan is not working...if you keep waking up late every morning... then you have to do exercise at night or get into a gym and go there after work...In this case you must do all the necessary changes to the plan in order to reach the objectives. The purpose is not to feel bad and quit right away because it is IMPOSSIBLE. Nothing is impossible if you insist enough.
Leadership and motivation. There is always someone out there around us that has the motivation we do not. To do something we would like to do. Get close to them, observe them, learn from them. Read motivational books. Look for professional coaching...a nutriologist, a physical trainer, a finance manager. Make a resolutions board with pictures of what you want to get and look at them everyday. Mark there the ones you have got, prize your achievements with little gifts to yourself. But never ...ever ever give up on you and your New Year Resolutions....
Good luck!!!
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La ChelaChelilla # Sunday, January 2, 2011 4:46:23 AM