You Sleep When You Die

My last post talked about business goals. It focused on forgetting about anything and anybody that got in the way of achieving success in 2010. No matter what you’re trying to accomplish in the business world, you must have a detailed ‘business plan.’

What about your other goals? Should you make personal resolutions too? If you want to accomplish them, of course you should!

You already know you should make a New Year’s resolution for 2011. (If you don’t know why, you obviously haven’t read my last post.) And you know that in order to have any hope of achieving it, you have to have a concrete plan.

According to an article earlier this year in the Miami Herald, almost 97 percent of New Year’s resolutions are never executed. Statistics also show that you should still make that resolution anyway. Why? Because those people that make a resolution are more likely to meet their goal than those people who don’t make one at all. Even if it were only three percent, wouldn’t you rather be one of those three percent?

Without a doubt, I want to surround myself with inspired, ignited people (not people looking to be inspired). I want driven people on my team. But does that mean I want a team full of leaders with the same traits that I have? Absolutely not!!

I didn’t think it was possible, but it seems like the political ads are actually getting fiercer as today’s midterm elections get closer. The candidates continue to viciously and personally attack one another. I have no idea what most of them stand for because they haven’t told us. The only thing I know is why they don’t like their opponent. That’s going to do very little to help me decide how to vote.