{"id":1349,"date":"2009-12-26T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T21:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:42:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:42:29","slug":"new-year-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/new-year-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you making a new year's resolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Does the baby new year inspire you to make resolutions?<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nFlipping the calendar to a new year seems like the perfect time to commit to becoming a better person — losing weight or quitting smoking or any number of other good ideas.
\nIf you’ve ever gone to a gym the first week of January, you know plenty of people start the year with good intentions. If you stick around until about Valentine’s Day, you know lots of those good intentions die pretty quickly.
\nThis week I’ll blog about some suggestions for making — and keeping — resolutions.
\nWhy should you make resolutions anyway? Isn’t it just a superficial tradition?<\/strong>
\nArial Hyatt pointed me to this inspiring article by John Lloyd<\/a> about the power of having clear goals and writing them down.
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In 1984, the late Mark H. McCormack wrote the bestseller What They Don\u2019t Teach You At Harvard Business School. He wrote about a research study conducted at Harvard between 1979 and 1989. In 1979, the MBA graduates were asked, \u201cHave you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?\u201d Only 3 percent had clear written goals and action plans to achieve them. Thirteen percent of the graduates had goals, but they were not in writing. The other 84 percent had no specific goals at all.
\nIn 1989, a decade later, the researchers again interviewed the students of that class. Surprisingly, they discovered that the 13 percent, who had goals that were not in writing, were earning on average twice as much as the 84 percent who had no goals at all.
\nThe truly amazing finding was that the 3 percent of students, who had written, clear goals when they left Harvard, were earning over 10 times as much, on average, as the other 97 percent together. <\/strong>
\nWhat is a goal? A goal is simply a personal set of instructions, that when followed, yield a selected and pre-determined result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ariel writes much more about goal setting here<\/a> — check it out to get more good ideas. Two of her pointers that resonate for me: (my wording, not hers, but the ideas are taken from Ariel)<\/p>\n