resolution and change for legal sanity in the New Year
New Year’s resolutions have a definite allure. But, they’re often so grand and sweeping that we fail to keep them and then feel really guilty about it.
Why should we limit ourselves to making resolutions one day a year?
After all, each day offers us an unspoiled opportunity to reflect on our personal pursuits and our work. If there’s something we want to change, we have at least 365 distinct chances to set our intention to do so. We also have at least 365 chances to take our intentions from the realm of possibility to reality.
A while back, I wrote a post on how we handle change. In it, I mentioned a very interesting Fast Company article by Alan Deutschman called Change or Die. The article contends that we aren’t wired to change via appeals to our intellect alone. We need to be convinced of the need for change on an emotional level.
Just in time for our new year of baby steps to change, Deutschman has expanded his article into a new book titled Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life. Fast Company offers us a glimpse at the book’s premise and content in this piece called Three Keys to Change. One of the book’s key offerings is a new model for compelling change based on three new “Rs” – “relate, repeat, and reframe.”
You may have noticed some changes around here of late. Posting has been light and sporadic. No worries, it’s all for good reason.
I’ve been busy traveling for my training + development business (now called Legal Sanity Learning Programs). I’m also putting the finishing touches on an eGuide to one of my favorite topics, work-life synergy for lawyers. The Guide is initially being offered as a companion to my upcoming, free teleseminar on the same subject.
I’ll resume a more frequent and regular post schedule next week. Until then, here’s to a year of positive changes for us all!
Arnie,
I agree with you. But I think that having particular events on the calendar help us to focus on this self reflection. Being Jewish, I automatically get two bites at the New Year's apple each year (and as you know, the Jewish New Year is a moving target which can anywhere from early September to early October in a given year); but you don't have to be Jewish to see September as a good time to reassess (coming off the summer vacation can be a good time to take stock) Maybe for some, it can be the start of the baseball season (that's a religion for some and it arrives conveniently several months after the start of the regular New Year.)
I'm getting a head start right now on my Ground Hog's Day resolutions so I've gotta run! But I'm resolved to blog more this year so I'll be back.