In the past when I've done my
resolutions as I start to write them out I've always asked myself "what
else"? My approach to 2018 is different. 2018 is the year of the Hell Yes.
Part of this line of thought is the usual December thoughts of wrapping up the
year and thinking about what I want to accomplish in the year ahead. This year
has an additional consideration; my looming 50th in January.
As an aside, I had to laugh last
month when some co-workers received black balloons for their 30th and
40th birthdays. I suppose I’ll have dead flowers or something
similar to look forward to.
But back to the subject at hand.
When I started on my 50th year goals, I thought about the number 50.
Wouldn’t it be great to do 50 things in my 50th year? Then I started
to list them out and after I got past a few they were getting pretty lame, or
they were things I wasn’t committed to.
And I continued to think about Essentialism,
the book we read for our company book club earlier this year. There is a line
in the book that says something like “if it’s not a Hell Yes, it’s a no”.
2018 is the year of Hell Yes (and plenty heck no). I am stripping away many of
the items on my “50 List”. I’m cutting things off my to do list. I challenged
my team to come up with their own Hell
Yes for 2018 (at least one, no more than three).
And then commit, overcommit, to accomplishing
the Hell Yeses. What if you spent
the year executing the handful of things you are most passionate about? At
work, what would be the impact on your organization if everyone found their Hell Yeses? And what would be positive
side effects of all the supporting actions (or inactions) required to execute
on your list? Imagine all the crap that would be eliminated.
Hell
Yes. 2018 (and 50) is going to be a heckuva
year.
