The new year has come and gone, and likely so have any new year’s resolutions you made. However, that doesn’t mean you have to consign 2018 to the “what will be, will be” basket.
Anyone who has held their focus in one area for any length of time will tell you it is focussed attention which sees results. But so often our attention is scattered because we don’t have anything that tangibly ties our goals together.
One technique for overcoming this, is to choose a theme to guide your day-to-day decisions.
This theme should relate to the things you have identified as being the most important to you. However, other than that, your theme can be a single guiding light or one that provides you with questions to check whether your actions are aligned to what you really want.
For example, in 2017, Ryan Levesque of The ASK Method, chose a theme of Less but Better. Feed the Best. He then eliminated the things which, although profitable in their own right weren’t related to his pared back focus and making those things world class. A decision which saw his company enter the list of the 500 fastest growing companies in America.
Joel Kendall of MODE has chosen for 2018: Quicker. Easier. Shinier., because he knows these three things are key to achieving the stretch goals he has set himself. They also make it simple for Joel to ask himself HOW what he is planning will make MODE quicker to respond, or easier to use, or visually more appealing.
Berenice Chaston of Decor Tiling Ltd, has chosen two statements to guide her company’s 2018 decision making: We think ahead and We eliminate anything making us less than the best. Like Joel, she now has a simple litmus test when debriefing their jobs:
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Were issues resolved before they became a problem? And if not,
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What do we need to do to make sure next time they are?
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