Tip 665: Keeping Resolutions

From the Time Management Workshops: Keeping Resolutions 

We’re grateful to the people at tecuity (a Logan, Utah, business-and-technical knowledge firm) for beginning this discussion.

New Year’s Eve. 

You’ve made some new year’s resolutions. Some goals for 2022.  

So how you gonna keep ‘em? 

Our suggestion: Break the major goals into bite-size pieces. 

A Historic Example

A Major Goal: President John Kennedy, May 25th, 1961 

I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. 

A Bite-size Piece: The Apollo 11 Flight Plan

127:43:35.7: Execute 4.2-second retro burn.

Which are you more comfortable with? Probably the 4.2 second burn.

Why? Because it’s a bite-size piece. It’s less intimidating. It’sdo-able.

An Individual Example

Your Major Goal

I’m going to get to work on time every day this year.

Your Bite-size Piece

Move my alarm clock out of arm’s reach.

Which are you more . . . oh, foo . . . that’s obvious, isn’t it? 

This is fun.

We love it. 

Have a great new year.