How are those new years resolutions going?
Personally I don’t go for January 1 resolutions. I think we should be aspiring to be better every year, every month, every day.
Unfortunately New Years Resolutions rarely succeed. A couple of weeks in your life habits take over and you go on doing what you’ve always done. After a couple of weeks of enthusiasm, the slog sets in, life interferes. #Seth Godin calls this the dip.
But if your resolutions have taken a slide, don’t worry – you can still reach your goal by 2015.
#Matt Webb has pointed out that 100 hours of deliberate practice doing one thing, repetitively is enough to become pretty good.
100 hours of learning to master a yoga pose, or to play an instrument.
100 hours of learning about an industry, tackle excel, or to learn to write for the web.
Pick a field. Pick the thing that you’ve always dreamed of. Spend 100 hours becoming competent. 100 hours later, you will be miles better at this than the average person. Take things out of the realm of “if only” and into your reality.
You can spend another year wishing that you were really good at something or a year making steady progress toward actually being good at what you want.
All you need is an average of 15 minutes each day and by this time next year you’ll have that skill, that knowledge, that ability. Now wouldn’t that be nice!