Don’t Set New Year’s Resolutions – Take Action in The New Year

Written by Wendy Hearn


It’s that time of year again when we start talking and thinking about New Year's Resolutions even though they’re old hat and we instinctively know they don’t work. Because your friends, family and colleagues may chat about what Resolutions they’re going to make, do you find yourself wondering whether to make any? We know that within a few days or weeks,repparttar Resolutions will be forgotten, nothing will have changed and yet for some reason most people still worry about them. So why do we still bother with New Year’s Resolutions? First, they're a custom and a New Year ushers in a new start, so what better time than now? There's even a small chance that we may stick to our Resolutions this year, so we have a go. The main reason some people think about New Year’s Resolutions is because they want to change things in their life.

There’srepparttar 106683 usual New Year’s Resolutions, such as I want to lose weight, change jobs, or earn more money but they tend to berepparttar 106684 same ones you’ve had for years and they’re still incomplete. These types of Resolutions are too vague. It’s this vagueness, coupled with a lack of action which means that most people don’t achieve their New Year’s Resolutions. For Resolutions to work, they need to be well thought out and have real meaning. If not, they become a vague item on your “wish list” instead of actually doing something concrete about them.

The word resolution comes from ‘resolve’ and means to make up one’s mind or decide firmly. Prior to New Years Day you may think of Resolutions you want to make and probably feel you’ve made up your mind, but what happens? Probably, very little or even nothing at all. Even though you know that Resolutions don’t usually work, it seems that most us still want to make them. Perhaps that’s because other people around you do it, so you feel you should follow suit because there are things in your life which you want to be different. The end of a year is a time for clearing out and completing things, to leave us with a clean slate ready to start a new year. There's something about a new year, a new beginning, and a fresh start which encourages us to make New Year's Resolutions. It’s a powerful feeling to know you have a year ahead of you and you can choose what you do with it. It’s a time for reflection about where you want to go next.

Hiring Executives That Are A Perfect Fit

Written by Kathi Graham-Leviss


© Kathi Graham-Leviss http://www.xbcoaching.com

If we had to define executives in one word, that word would be “visionaries.” Executives are people who have an uncanny ability to grasp and understand long-term goals and broad ideas... and to communicate them to others. They are dreamers whose creative and analytical attributes come together to hold an idea and see it through to realization. They are alsorepparttar people who recruit others to support that vision.

But what exactly makes for a great executive? After all, many people can latch ontorepparttar 106682 “big picture” but don’t possess other qualities that are necessary for leading an entire organization toward success.

One tool,repparttar 106683 DISC Behavior Model, offers tremendous insight intorepparttar 106684 behavioral styles of applicants. Through some unique insights, you can definerepparttar 106685 characteristics needed for your position and thus be able to hirerepparttar 106686 executive that’s a perfect fit for your corporation.

DISC stands for Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance. Each one of these four styles possesses observable behavioral traits that can contribute to or diminish job performance.

Let’s define a few characteristics necessary for executives to be truly successful. The first traits that usually come to mind are:

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