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Goals are better than resolutions

January 07, 2022

I hope you enjoyed your holidays and rang in the new year in a positive way.

I’m personally thrilled about the opportunities for success I see in 2022. I’m hoping you are examining your life and goals and finding some similar optimism for your own path through this new year.

Despite several people in my family coming down with covid near the end of our holiday break, 2022 looks bright.

If you know me, I’m not really one to come up with new year’s resolutions, but rather I like to set annual goals that I can break down and work towards in smaller sprints throughout the year. This typically adds up to big gains in productivity and plan-execution that results in hitting and/or exceeding goals. 

This goal structure helps me maintain motivation and gain progress throughout the year by breaking things down into quarterly, monthly, and even weekly micro-goals to accomplish.Being able to complete small tasks, regularly, builds confidence that helps drive ongoing momentum. Then, before you know it, half the year has passed and when you string all those little wins together you realize you’re more than half-way to reaching your annual goal.

The alternative is to give yourself a single new year’s resolution that will most likely force you to make too drastic of a day-to-day change in your routine to be able to achieve the resolution’s final result.This becomes so overwhelming that the resolution is dropped by February, to be forgotten and ignored throughout the rest of the year. However, not without a combined sense of failure and guilt for not sticking to the resolution - unfortunately, that gift keeps giving all year long.  

No thank you.

Think of the new year as an opportunity to improve yourself or your life in some way, shape or form, and it doesn’t have to be a big change.I encourage you to think of one thing you’d like to achieve or improve by the end of this year that seems, perhaps, small in your mind when you compare it to new year’s resolutions you might have proposed to yourself in the past.

Give yourself breathing room with this goal to actually achieve it by the end of the year. You don’t have to be in a rush to achieve it by February - that’s not even realistic.

Once you have your goal in mind, think about 12 small steps you could make, one a month, that would advance you towards your big goal by the end of the year.Can you break those 12 smaller steps into even smaller, more manageable chunks - one per week that would advance your progress towards the monthly milestone?

The idea is to reduce the overwhelm of trying to reach a big goal by breaking it down into something more bite-sized but on a regular basis so you compound your progress throughout the year, and actually achieve what you’re after. 

I promise, this process of goal setting/achievement will make you feel better and more accomplished than any old new year’s resolution.

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Stay positive. Stay healthy. Be kind.Sincerely,Nick VenturellaCreative Professional, andco-founder of Eleven Music Career CenterNickVenturella.comnickVmusic.netnickVguitars.comFacebookYouTube