New Year - New Beginnings
Posted on January 16, 2013 by Heidi Howley, One of Thousands of Entrepreneurship Coaches on Noomii.
Decide on what you want to invest your time and energy in 2013. Working with a coach can help you gain more clarity about what is important to you.
As you start writing down your goals for the new year, stop for a moment and ask yourself these questions:
1. What needs to happen this year to make you feel successful, personally and professionally?
What are the outcome you want to see this year? What are some of the things that are really important to you that you want to have more of?
Are you planning to create more time for yourself, time with the family, dreaming of traveling to a foreign country, have more energy and vitality or want to be more successful in your business or career?
How do you measure your success – by your freedom of time, your life style or by your bank balance?
2. What worked well this past year and how can you build on this?
Look back and reflect on all the new things you have learnt along the way. Consider how you can use lessons learnt to further improve the areas in your life you want to see change in – be it your business or career, relationships, health.
3. What habits did not support you and how might you change them?
Spend some time to review the year and see which goals you did not achieve. Be honest with yourself. Did your lifestyle change and some goals were not important any more? Or did you fall back into some habits that keep you in the same place, doing the same thing? How can you set realistic goals that are worthy of your time and effort and create new habits that will support them?
You are the only one that can decide what is good for you. You know your rhythm, your timing. Stay true to that. Decide on what you want to invest your time and energy in the new year. Create a time line or mind map and check each week how you are doing against it. Also, make sure you have an accountability partner, someone who will challenge you when you need challenging. Someone who helps you get unstuck and who nudges you when a mental gremlin shows up who wants you to submit to your fears.
