5 Easy Steps To Set Yourself Up For Success In The New Year

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

Since transitioning to coaching several years ago, one of the things I do with the people I coach is to help them complete the current year well and set themselves up well in the new year because often as adults lists start running our lives instead of us.

At the end of a year and enter a new one, we enter with optimism and possibilities before experiencing the overwhelm of day-to-day life and responsibilities that capture our rudder and take command of it.

If you follow these 5 steps, you will take the wheel of the ship and start commanding it again so you have success in the new year.

1. Review the previous year and all you’ve done. Make up a list of at least 25 successes you had during the previous year. These successes don’t have to be work-related although they can be. They can be as wide-ranging as I paid my bills on time, I attended my child’s football game in September, I completed a project on time and within budget, I solved a particularly difficult problem, I took a vacation, anything that when you think about your year would represent something positive that you did during the year. Complete this list in one week. Feel free to message your list to me on LinkedIn and let’s celebrate your successes.