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Six Steps To Make Resolutions Stick

Click here to read the six steps from an Everyday Health article.

Or, simply read my list that says the same thing, just differently:

Make your goal impossible
Start small, I mean seriously small
Plan on it taking the rest of your life
Do it for someone else, someone really (significantly) important
Plan for set backs and mis-steps
Have fun and reward yourself occasionally
(Bonus step) Search, and find, your indomitable will along way

Ready, set, go!

Harvard Business Review Says

Harvard Business Review simply says this, in reference to the proverbial mid life crisis:

“A growing number of researchers are defining middle age more broadly and in positive terms, as a good time to reassess life goals and chart a new course.”

“Midlife is your best and last chance to become the real you,” declared an article on the topic last year in the Harvard Business Review, which drew thousands of emails in response, says co-author Carlo Strenger, an associate professor of psychology at Tel Aviv University in Israel and a researcher and consultant on midlife change.”

It’s simple.

We go through life and most of us mess it up. We get a second chance.

It’s called Mid Life Celebration.

Knowing this is meaningless.

Acting on it is everything.

Impossible is nothing.

What Song?

Here are the top five finalists, in no particular order:

I Feel Good – James Brown
Fruitcakes – Jimmy Buffett
Netherlands – Dan Fogelberg
Lifesong – Casting Crowns
I Can Only Imagine – Mercy Me

This was way harder than I thought. Anyone else struggle?

Oh, I almost forgot, you really don’t have time for this nonsense. I get it. Everyone is crazy busy.

January was supposed to be simple – Simplicity. What the heck happened to simplicity?

I can only imagine.

Idea Virus MLC-1N1

Notice the date in this picture? It’s today, January 16, 2009. So?

OK, good morning world. How do you start your day? Same way every time, or each day different?

Is it a chore? Are you anxious or worried about all that will be expected of you?

Is it exciting? An adventure in which you get to help others by what you do?

Each morning begins the same for me. On my knees, three prayers. Kiss my wife and son as they sleep. Turn on all the computers. Head downstairs to make some coffee.

While coffee is brewing, head back upstairs to check emails on two computers.

Google alerts come in every day around a few key words.

The point is this, in case you haven’t figured this out yet: An idea virus (credit to Seth Godin) is something good that spreads because of the Internet.

It spreads much faster, and much farther, than without the Internet.

You get this right? It’s common sense but not common…..

PS. Never asked them to post this on the company’s Facebook page. They did it anyway. Seems it was a good idea that spread.

Sorry

Simplicity is an elusive goal sometimes.

Ok, simplicity is elusive most of the time.

But so are a lot of things that are important. Should that stop us from our pursuit?

There is only one, resounding answer to this question.

And maybe by tomorrow I’ll have my movie soundtrack song(s) to share with the world. This was a fun, and frustrating, exercise.

And anything but simple.

Should have seen it coming.