Once Upon a Time I Made a New Year Resolution… I wrote all this great stuff in a planner, in a fitness planner and made a Vision Board. Then I ignored all of it because I didn’t have time. That describes 2014. It was a great year by all accounts, but if I’m really honest, it was on accident. Hard work, but not from the plans I created. I was extremely busy, I was in my car A LOT, I became addicted to Starbucks and apparently allergic to exercise (I was busy & tired, ain’t nobody got time for that).
So why I am I telling you this? Because I started a blog and got to busy to write posts. They say to effectively get readers you have to be consistent, otherwise they get disappointed and leave. I gave myself the excuse that you were busy too and wouldn’t notice.
I know you are all thinking this, so am I!
I hope I was right, but then if I was, I just gave myself up!
Back to the resolutions… I had some great growth last year. Thank you to my clients for all of the exciting challenges. But I did it all in a frenzy and THAT cannot happen again this year. I have to get organized. I must have a plan. I can’t react to the challenges and run my schedule and myself around them. I have to get back into shape (that’s personal so I won’t bore you with that one. But please if you see me near a cheeseburger slap it out of my hand!).
What am I doing to get there? Announcing it in Public… I will get organized, I will work the new systems I’ve put in place and re-evaluate in 90 days. Trying KanBan as suggested from The Advenger. Have to create a habit! I’m also doing a 30 day blog challenge so I can get back into writing and keeping you up to date on all the EXCITING things happening in Human Resources. I think the new Congress is going to keep us on our toes for a while and Illinois has a few new laws this year (a blog post to come I promise, it’s on the To Do List).
I hope to make this bigger and better in 2015. I hope you can do the same with your business and life.
I would love to hear from you….
What are you doing to change it up this year? AND What topics are you interested in?
don't bite the apple...work is not a fairy tale! 
It could be great if you share with us your strategy once you have gotten the planned results. In my case, I need to focus in a core activity avoiding all sort of distractions and having a project in place where I can control tasks, time, and evaluate results. Unfortunately, these days of dispersed attention do not contribute to keep the focus in the way I want but I do my best. My strategy is based in a personal knowledge management plan where I define short term and mid term activities and the knowledge I have to get. For instance, joining Blogging 101 will bring to me the specific knowledge to reinforce my next course in collective intelligence.
I will follow up after the 90 days and let you all know. But if you want to see what I’m doing here is a video that I watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8dYLbJiTUE I am going to use NEW, IN-PROGRESS, REVIEW, COMPLETE. Maybe my set up will be my next blog post. I wish us both luck Ivan!
Thank you
I was thinking about Kanban; take a look at this article and try Trello http://www.wired.com/2014/08/why-a-simple-to-do-list-tool-is-winning-over-legions-of-fans/?utm_content=buffer00531&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
You can do it!! Great post, really made me laugh and I love your banner, by the way 🙂
Thanks so much. Loved the photo shoot for that it was so much fun!