Another New Year? What's in it for you?

I hate New Year’s resolutions! It seems that more often than not they are meant to be broken - if not just plain ignored from the start. So many are short-sighted and vague.

Over the years I have resolved to do this and resolved to do that under the guise of a New Year meaning a new start. Most of those resolutions I cannot remember. All of those resolutions I have relinquished to the rubbish heap.

According to statisticbrain.com, one website exploring such mundane issues, 45% of people make resolutions, 38% never make them and 17% do so infrequently. New Year’s resolutions tend to be lightweight, flippant and have no resolution behind them.

Instead of flighty, half-hearted New Year’s resolutions, I think people just need to set some goals, dream their dreams and get off their lazy things and do it!

Many years ago I listened to a tape (think old) of Zig Ziglar. In it he recounted a story of a famous archer named Howard Hill, who won 196 archery tournaments in a row and had been hailed as the world’s greatest archer during his lifetime. Zig spoke of how he could have anybody shooting as well as Howard Hill in a very short length of time – provided they first blindfolded Howard Hill! When people laughed, he said it’s common for people to respond by asking how you could even hit a target you can’t see. His response was: How can you hit a target you don’t even have?

What he was saying is that we must have a goal; we must have something to aim at if we expect to get anything accomplished.

Let’s all set some goals for this year. Let’s not be like those who set short-term resolutions but never finish the task. Let’s make some real goals and carry them through to the finish.

One of my goals for this year is to publish two more books.

How about you? Time to get serious.