Archive for January, 2009

New Year Faith, Performance, and Persistence

January 4, 2009

Here we are again at the beginning of the annual time circle. Today starts the first full week of work of a new year. All day I’ve been thinking about what I would offer you.

You have already heard me say I don’t care about New Year’s Resolutions anymore until they are backed up by a true plan of action complete with specific and measurable, motivating, attainable, relevant, and trackable goals (the ubiquitous SMART model.) That remains true. Resolutions without plans are like the wishes a girl makes that she get a pony for her birthday or, a boy wishes his sister would turn into a bug. Nay; for adult dreams to become real they need adult plans of action.

That’s what I intended to write about. But, I would rather offer you a…