Have the wheels already fallen off your New Year’s Business or Career Goals?

You know the drill. The old year draws to a close.  Some good progress here and there, but perhaps some larger business or career goals not quite met or not met at all.  In our pre Holidays optimism we start thinking how we will improve our business or career in the New Year.
It’s easy to make grandiose claims to ourselves about what we’ll do so much better in the New Year – through the haze of end of year lunches and imminent holidays.

Then, the New Year starts, we head back to work and we have (either written or in our heads) our grandiose new year’s resolution for our business, job or career.  They say many personal New Year’s resolutions (e.g. quit smoking, run every day, to not lose my temper so quickly with my kids) start to lose their steam by the end of the second week of the New Year.

When it comes to our resolutions for business and career, it is safe to assume that many of us have fallen off the rails by the second week of February.  Life and work gets back to full speed – traffic is back on the commute, kids back at school and life starts to feel the same way it did in November.  Either without us really knowing it (or burying it)-we slip into the same work mode and habits – and our New Year’s resolutions for work or career have evaporated – or are clinging to life support at best.

So what can we do about it when we fall off the wagon when it comes to New Year’s business and career goals or resolutions?
Simple really – we get back on the wagon!