Translation?

No matter how excited and psychologically pumped you are about a goal, your potential to successfully achieve it, is determined by your day-to-day, hour-to-hour actions. Goal planning is essential to craft your momentum.

Bottom line: Excitement ≠ Momentum.

WHAT?!! Does this mean that my joyful anticipation of the “svelte, 20 pounds lighter, me” will not fuel my desire to jump on the elliptical for 30 minutes every day? That’s right. The confounding reality is: Our potential to achieve ongoing personal and professional goals requires planning and behavioral changes that are easily manipulated by our attitude flux.

If you have not considered your 2014 plan, you just ran out of January days to do it!

How will you do it? 

How will you develop attitudes, create realistic and attainable goals, and design a strategy that increases your capacity for achievement?

Achievement is a result of one key element: decisive action.

Achievement = Success!

Success = Bragging Rights!

Bragging Rights = Fuel for 2015!

Be Decisive!

As a rule, most decisions are really a series of choices. Large or small, the ability to be successfully decisive has little to do with personality, but more to do with our ability to analyze a situation and plan actionable ways to approach each piece, or step, of the challenge.

Another aspect of decisiveness is the combination of our logic and the emotional facets of our personality. This combination, our intuition, will influence our best made decisions. Intuition, some call it our sixth sense, can serve us well as we apply our personal experiences and daily applications of formal learning to a scenario.

However, intuition is sometimes elusive.

We simply cannot always sense the right outcome.

So, what do we do?

• Set clearly defined goals.
• Establish long-range, intermediate, and short-range goals.
• Tether the goals to specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely elements (SMART Goals).

To determine if the decisions you are about to make will accomplish your objective, design your goals the SMART way. Your top priority must be to make decisions that are consistent with your goals.

NOW, review your process of decision making, the process each of us uses, as a habitual way of choosing between alternatives. 

Develop your style for decisive behaviors, create your SMART habits, and you will make 2014 YOUR year to brag OUT LOUD!