A few years ago when I went back to school to get my MBA, I went to a university that at the time had a program that was ranked 12th in the nation. One of the first classes I took was Organizational Behavior. It was one of the best classes in my whole academic career (way to go Bonnie, keep up the great work!)
One of the many things that has stuck with me from that class happened when we were talking about goal setting. I would have to admit I sort of clocked out during this discussion because I had hear all of this before...but I still had something to learn.
Professor Bonnie asked all of us to raise our hand if we had ever set a New Years resolution. There were about 30 business, very corporate, white collar, "fast track" students in the class and we all raised our hand. Then she asked us to keep our hands up if we actually accomplished our resolution. I just about fell out of my seat when there were only two hands left raised, one other student and me.
Seriously only about 5% of these type A people actually accomplished what they set out to do? There has to be something wrong with this. So of course this was a perfect time for a discussion to figure this out. You know what came out of that time of discovery? Something very simple. You probably will not even believe me. Here it is...here is the only thing that separated success and failure. The two of us wrote our resolutions down!!! Seriously that was it.
So what are you waiting for? If you made a resolution...WRITE IT DOWN!!!
Great Post. By the way, when you click on the subscribe to this blog's feed, it doesn't work-at least for me. I have subscribed by other methods.
Posted by: Joe Hungler | January 28, 2008 at 09:36 PM