Comments on: Thought for the week – 12 – Anyone for resolutions? http://www.smallbusinesstraining.co.uk/thought-for-the-week/thought-for-the-week-12-anyone-for-resolutions Improve your sales and marketing skills: Win and grow more profitable business Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:57:23 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Phil Parkin http://www.smallbusinesstraining.co.uk/thought-for-the-week/thought-for-the-week-12-anyone-for-resolutions/comment-page-1#comment-24 Phil Parkin Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:21:48 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesstraining.co.uk/thought-for-the-week/thought-for-the-week-12-anyone-for-resolutions#comment-24 It's not often that I disagree with Linda (just as well really as we work together). But, although I agree that positively phrased resolutions/goals are much more likely to succeed, I DO see a value in the "New Year deadline". Let me explain. For those of us who are always well organised and do not procrastinate on goal-setting then she is absolutely right. But for some of us it just ain't that easy! If you are thinking of applying a New Years' resolution to yourself you are already thinking about what it is and what you want to achieve - so why haven't you already done it? The answer, I suspect, is that you know that without a deadline, somehow that goal will never quite manage to get set - that you are using Dec 31 midnight (ish) as an aid to making sure that you actually DO what you know you should be doing anyway. What do YOU think? Anyway - happy New Year and good luck with your resolutions. Phil Parkin It’s not often that I disagree with Linda (just as well really as we work together). But, although I agree that positively phrased resolutions/goals are much more likely to succeed, I DO see a value in the “New Year deadline”.

Let me explain. For those of us who are always well organised and do not procrastinate on goal-setting then she is absolutely right. But for some of us it just ain’t that easy!

If you are thinking of applying a New Years’ resolution to yourself you are already thinking about what it is and what you want to achieve – so why haven’t you already done it?

The answer, I suspect, is that you know that without a deadline, somehow that goal will never quite manage to get set – that you are using Dec 31 midnight (ish) as an aid to making sure that you actually DO what you know you should be doing anyway.

What do YOU think?

Anyway – happy New Year and good luck with your resolutions.

Phil Parkin

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