The Importance of New Years Resolutions.

All right, I admit it. Guilty as charged. What I’m alluding to is the fact that I failed to attain some of this passing years New Years Resolutions. Call it lack of discipline, a bad economy, or whatever, the fact is, I just didn’t make all of my goals.

Now goal setting is a practice that I’ve subscribed to for several decades. I discovered the power of goals early in my running career. Observe the habits of any competitive runner, or any serious athlete for that matter, and you’ll find that all of them have a structured routine. Structure is imperative, if a person expects to excel in a sport. The same principles apply to many facets of life, including goals. While following these steps don’t assure that you will achieve everything that you set out to accomplish, they can certainly go along way toward increasing the likelihood. So, here they are:

(1) Write down what it is that you would like to accomplish.

(2) Log your progress.

(3) Review.

(4) Make adjustments as necessary.

One of my favorite quotes was coined by author and accomplished salesman, Zig Zigler. It goes something like this, “If you strike at nothing, you’ll hit it every time”.