Many people look at the New Year as a time to start something different. They make resolutions to be different. They see this time as an opportunity to improve their lives. However, resolutions generally don't have specific goals and action plans attached to them...
If I am going to keep my resolutions, they will have to be important enough to keep motivated over time. Our goals have to be important if we can ever expect to achieve them. We simply won’t have the drive to get there otherwise. I realize this is a no-brainer, from the intellectual side of things. However, it gets bigger than that...
Focusing on the outcome keeps us from getting stuck on minor things. Make sure the outcome is in sight and you will be less likely to get stuck in the middle of the road...