WELCOME 2018

This week is the time for resolutions and goal setting for 2018.

A new book by Neil Pasricha entitled Two Minute Mornings:  A journal to win your day every day, states that only eight percent of New Year’s resolutions or goals are actually ever kept.

In an interview on CTV’s Canada AM a few days ago, the author claimed that the reason most people fail at keeping their resolutions is that they lack an actual system to achieve their goals. He explained that if a man makes losing ten pounds a resolution, selling his car and walking to and from work every day would be a system. According to Pasricha, “systems beat goals every time.”

He urges each of us to “create a system to institutionalize something that habitually will change our behaviours.”

I like his straightforward logic.

He went on to say that the average person is awake for roughly 1,000 minutes a day. “Why not spend two minutes trying to take the other 998 minutes better?” he asked sincerely.

That’s the thesis of his most recent book however he was quick to point out one doesn’t have to read it to adopt his system. In fact, the essence of his approach is simply the answering of the following three prompts every morning;

I will let go of....

I am grateful for...

I will focus on...

He claims that these three directives will help one to honestly reflect on his or her day thus making the remaining 998 minutes more purposeful and rewarding.

Sounds like a great goal, I mean system, for making 2018 a successful year.

Certainly much better than my pie in the sky dreams of getting in better shape, improving my French and not losing my patience over traffic snarls.

Happy New Year everyone!

Make it the best ever.