What Will You Un-Resolve for 2025?

New Years resolutions have terrible staying power. Here are 3 steps to be more successful this year…

According to Forbes, merely 8 percent of people keep their resolutions twelve months later. (You may have already noticed this happening, just 2 weeks into 2025.) The reasons for broken resolutions go beyond lack of will power. According to Elizabeth Grace Saunders, time management coach and author of How To Invest Your Time Like Money, many people fail to accomplish new goals because they don’t consciously eliminate old activities from their schedule to make room for the new. It’s like “trying to stuff more papers into a file drawer that’s already packed tight.”

If your resolutions involve workplace goals and behaviors, consider the following:

• Evaluate all your work commitments.  The start of a new year marks the perfect time to reevaluate what you’re doing, how you are doing it, and why. Are there routine activities you can drop?
• Reassess your work style. Examine how you accomplish work. Are you using meetings efficiently? Can you have fewer or shorter meetings? Does completing the projects you’re currently working on still make sense? 
• Add new goals strategically. Once you intentionally create space, you can strategically add in the activities that you want in your life. To say “yes” to the new, you must say “no” to some of the old.

What can you un- resolve for this coming year to make room for new priorities? To join the conversation, click on "comments" below.

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