Resolutions 2010: script the critical moves

Mastery and discipline are keywords for bikers.

But it also applies to organizations, professionals and persons.

Do you wonder how to keep your resolutions?

This post might help u at any time.

Found at http://levite.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/script-the-critical-moves/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+LeviteChronicles+(Levite+Chronicles)

We’re a month into 2010 and we’re drowning.

We had wonderful things we wanted to accomplish, goals we set, 3 words we listed. And now, five weeks later, we’re wondering what happened.

• Wanting change is easy.
• Changing is hard.
• Listing options for change is easy.
• Picking one is hard.
• Getting lost in the details of a solution is easy.
• Picking just one thing to do that will make a difference is hard.

Chip Heath and Dan Heath recognize just how hard that is. In the third chapter of Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, they tell us that having too many options paralyzes us into continuing with how we do things already. (I’m blogging through conversations about this book. Here’s my post on chapter two: finding bright spots.)

The solution?

To be continued at http://levite.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/script-the-critical-moves/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+LeviteChronicles+(Levite+Chronicles)

In this chapter, it’s to script the critical moves. Because options and ambiguity confuse people, the Heaths say, if you want to help people change, clearly identify what you want people to do.

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