Here are some tips for working to accomplish your personal and professional goals in the New Year:

First things first, make a list of your 2018 accomplishments – one of your professional accomplishments to hang up at work, and one of your personal accomplishments to hang up at home. This will provide you with a good spring board to move forward from.
Make a list of your personal and professional goals – again placing one at home and one at work.
Announce your goals to friends and family. Not only is this a way to get support and ideas for your goals, it also creates a gentle source of accountability. It's easy to quit when no one knows you started to begin with.
Don't look at someone's social media highlight reel and think it's a 360-degree reality, because it's not. Comparison is the absolute thief of joy. Your journey is your own, and unique to you. I saw a photo of my friend's huge accomplishment today on social media. She's was hired to do communications for a newly-elected congresswoman. Because we talk frequently, I know all about the hard work she's put into her career that got her to this point of starting her own business. By just seeing the image on social media, without knowing the context of her journey or being fully aware of the many long nights and hard work it took her to get there, it would be easy to grow envious of the accomplishment. Again – a lesson that we're all on our own journey.
Get a hobby! If you have an outlet in your personal life that makes you happy, that generally bleeds over to your professional life and breeds creativity in the workplace too.

Share with me how you celebrated the New Year and the creative ways you try to stick to your goals at the email address below.

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