I have been looking back on my resolutions over the past 3 years on this blog. Last year, I gave up the difficult resolutions like not checking email so often and focused on some concrete, more realistic goals. So how did I do this year?
1. Publish my second book. Done! Bounce! ships January 28th! BTW, this was also a 2006 NYE resolution
2. Publish the audio of my first book, You Need To Be A Little Crazy! Done! It came out last September.
3. Get Katherine, my assistant and I more training. Improve my professional speaking skills. Done. We both went to National Speaker Association events. I worked with Victoria LaBalme, and Robin Creasman. I got up my new web site, brochures, video, and honed my speaker skills.
4. Take a rank promotion at Karate. Done I passed my advanced Green Belt in April with a dislocated finger, bloody toe and bruised ribs.
5. Take Pilates twice a Week. Fail. My trainer, Heidi quit the club and with my new trainer, my travel has not enabled me to do this.
2008 New Year’s Resolutions:
1. Boost Bounce! Get out there and promote the book. Practice, Practice, Practice the Bounce! Keynote speech.
2. Spend more time at our Michigan Beach House with my family. This is a place where there is no TV and no Internet…and somehow we manage to have lots of fun.
3. Take the rank promotion test to Brown Belt in Karate (maybe my last?). Do at least a Yoga minute per day with Sara.
What are your resolutions?
My new year’s resolution is to promote my new book, Illusions of Entrepreneurship as much as you promote yours. (It’s a pretty good challenge since they come out on the same day.)
The book busts myths about entrepreneurship. Check out the quiz for the site at
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/entrepreneurshipquiz.asp
and see how much you know.
Okay, this is a pretty crass way to try to piggyback on someone’s blog to get news about a book out. But I think you’re the kind of guy who will be okay with it.