Designing your year
Big thinking, Direction, Identity and Growth
Designing your Year…
Regret Review
What bugs you the most about last year, write it down and think what lessons did you learn? Dan Pink the author of the Power of Regret says “Regret isn’t a weakness its instruction”
Pre-mortem
Go to the end of the year in your mind and think about the things you care about the most. Imagine if you failed to achieve those things, so therefore book them in now at the start of the year.
Three word theme
As a compass for the year what 3 words would act as your compass?
85% Rule
We succeed 85% of the time so we are always on the edge of ability. Real progress should be awkward we fall down and then we get up again.
Choose Courage over Comfort
Redefine discomfort as learning, go for those difficult conversations. Introduce friction so it acts as a disturb, eg. an app that helps with savings. Good idea to also remove friction eg. delete apps that distract.
Public promises
Making a social contract or having an accountability partner makes us far more likely to succeed.
Track small wins
Teresa Amabile the author of the Progress Principle, says the most important factor of feeling motivated is the feeling of progressing
