New Year Actions

What are you doing right now?

Yes, that's doing. Not thinkng about, dreaming about, assuming.........it's doing.

Let me share a little secret with you about New Year Resolutions. They don't work. They are a sop to your laziness and lack of planning. It's actions that count. And they come out of hard planning and cold, steely determination.

Madeleine and I did our planning last Wednesday. We know what has to be done in 2010.

My execution list started yesterday. Only 3 or 4 hours......but that's history now. Today's schedule is over half way through. And so on.

Some of the people I know are in their planning phase. Scott and Martin have taken a remote cottage in Cumbria this weekend, without partners or any distractions, to detox, focus and accelerate full speed into the year tomorrow morning. Scott has built an outdoor products retailing site with breathtaking speed and Martin is an utter bulldozer of a performance coach.

Danny, who has founded his lifestyles activity operation on cookery classes (with much, much more to come) is holded up on his own in a Manchester hotel, planning for 2010. Bradley is poolside in Miami but we are exchaning emails this weekend about how he can even better address the UK's mixed race issues in 2010.

Everyone's poised, planning, getting ready.

We're going to crack into the first official week back like Olympic sprinters, while so many others are still thinking about where the starting blocks might be.

Are you coming with us? Are you a stumbler or a sprinter? New Year Resolutions are delaying tactics - get your New Year Actions into focus and underway NOW.

- Malcolm Evans is a partner in corporate culture and business ethics specialist The Cultureship Practice.