How to fail 2021? An anti-guide to New Year resolutions

This brief article is meant for those among us who like to set up new goals and New Year resolutions and remarkably fail them.

2020 showed that classical goal setting (for example, SMART) does not always work and therefore in this article, in a half-joke and half-serious form, we want to show you how to build anti-goals.

There are easy steps which we need to follow in order to fail any of our New Year resolutions:

Step 1. Before 2020 ends, set SMART goals for the next year

Step 2. Forget to review your goals in January 2021

Step 3. Forget to review them in all the following months until December 2021

Step 4. Don’t follow your intuition

Step 5. Don’t rely on your gut feelings

Step 6. Confuse yourself by following various predictions of your future

Step 7. Do not create / develop and follow your own vision

Step 8. Hope for the best

Good luck and a Happy New Year!

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players…”

(W. Shakespeare, As You Like It)

We believe that each and every one of us is not only a leading actor but first and foremost a writer of our own destiny. Overwhelmed by life events, we may unintentionally forget that we are the sole playwrights of our own lives. We may even unwittingly drop or lose the thread of our unfolding life story. Then, we start questioning ourselves and let others do the writing for us. Doesn’t this happen to all of us occasionally? The best thing we can do is to resume the leadership as soon as we can: only we should write the play of our life!

With the renewed confidence and new skills, we design new perspectives. Coaching and training are some of the best instruments we use to achieve this goal.