Getting Ready for the New Year, in One Word

Dec 28, 2019 | Leadership, Mindset, Performance Management

During this time of New Year’s resolutions, there’s a proven strategy that is more successful than creating a long list of goals and resolutions.

It’s the one word commitment.

Mike Ashcraft and Rachel Olsen wrote about it in My One Word, and Dan Britton, Jimmy Page, and Jon Gordon wrote One Word That Will Change Your Life to explain their version.

The technique is simple: instead of traditional resolutions, choose just one word as your objective. The rationale is that one word will help you focus and can be easily remembered throughout the year.

I invite you to throw out pages of goals this year, and instead focus on just one word. My one word for 2020 is consistency. What is yours?

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