The end of each year brings time for celebrations, time spent with family and, if we’re lucky, time for delicious feasts. It also should bring a little time for reflection, to think about what you’ve learned over the past year and how you can improve in the coming year. Call it a New Year’s Resolution if you like, but really it’s the continuation of a self-improvement process. We make them for ourselves all the time – lose weight, read more, eat healthier, etc. We should make them for our business careers as well.
This year, I started making lists of tasks that I needed to accomplish. I dedicated a notepad to the task, and every morning as I logged onto my computer, I wrote down the tasks. Not only did it give me a focus for the day, but accomplishing a task and crossing it off the list was an uncommonly good feeling. I started thinking further and further ahead, deliberately making my lists longer. Rather than intimidating me with all there was to do, it gave me a mission — cross off as much as I can each day. It’s something I hope to continue into 2019.