New, Next, and Now

I’m running a three-month project-completion workshop starting on December 1st. It’s called Next Year Starts Now 🚀 and you can learn more here.

You don’t have to wait for the New Year to get started on your resolutions. In fact, I’d argue that waiting for January 1st is the worst way to make a change.

Did you know that of the 41% of Americans who make New Year’s resolutions, only 9% are successful in keeping them?

We can do better than that.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great. — Zig Ziglar

As the end of the year comes into focus and the holiday season approaches, a growing list of our nice-to-have priorities will be punted to the “next year” pile. And when the fog of the new year clears and the urgency of those punted priorities comes into focus, abandoning our goals and resolutions is the easiest way to make time.

But your dreams deserve better.

The truth is that right now is always the best time to make a change, but right now is never convenient. In fact, the inconvenience of deciding, committing, and taking immediate action is what’s transformative. I know this because taking immediate action—the core of my Next Year Starts Now ethos—changed my life.

Right now prevents us from hiding, demonstrates (most importantly, to ourselves) how serious we are, and interrupts the time-honored tradition of getting ready to get ready, a pattern that kept me stuck and living below my potential for years.

So in that spirit, I hope you’ll consider joining me for an intentionally inconvenient end-of-year sprint. Registration will be open for two weeks starting today, and I hope to see you inside. Email me with any questions.

LFG 🚀

 

Willie Jackson helps teams and organizations find harmony. He brings compassion and levity to the challenging work of cultural transformation, inviting groups to lead with their shared humanity.

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