Aren’t statistics great? Well, not to those of us who don’t particularly like numbers (and that will be me), but maybe to many of us to serve a purpose. I read somewhere that approximately 50% of us make resolutions each year. Top of the list? You can probably guess: stopping smoking, weight loss, less sloth.

Resolutions?  Well, they’re a cultural procrastination aren’t they?  A resolve to reinvent or to motivate.

But making resolutions work requires changing behaviours, a rewiring of the brain.

And simply trying to change something by not doing it just strengthens the original habit and causes the desired change we want to fail.

So instead of a resolution that’s SMART or is about stopping doing something, how about creating for yourself an area of focus, rather than a set of goals?  An environment where you can’t cheat or take unnecessary risks?

And before you write your resolutions for 2016, and as 2015 becomes a thing of the past, what did you achieve this year at work? Did you:

• Actively seek feedback

• Do some quality CPD

• Have regular 1:1s

• Find your confidence

• Assert yourself

• Achieve your objectives/goals/priorities

• Learn something new

• Learn about yourself

• Teach someone something

• Create a development plan that’s still going strong

• Coach without telling

• Really listen to another’s problem

• Improve a relationship at work

• Tell someone how you feel

Perhaps this could become your ready-made list for the coming year?

The list is endless. Your possibilities are endless.