A New Year Resolution
I admit, I started my 2010 New Years Resolution last September when I initiated this blog. I spent several months pre-populating the blog with various tidbits of a personal nature to practice using WordPress (the platform you’re reading) and to experiment with a number of topics. While I have learned a great deal, I have far to go.
The point of this posting is to state that a New Years Resolution should be communicated. It should be a statement worth sharing. It can be personal, which means you would only share it with close family members or a privileged few…but it is nevertheless a statement and requires the courage to communicate. For it to “count” you must do more than just think about it. You must have the courage to place it in view of someone.
I obviously told a couple of close friends & colleagues about this site while it was under development, even though I wasn’t yet sure I knew where it would lead. It was necessary to gauge the level of expectations of my intended readers and to make adjustments when necessary. The best example was the revelation that anonymous postings were absolutely required if I wanted to entice people to participate. At Ford Motor Company (and I’m sure many other fortune 1-100’s), it is a kiss of death to be viewed outside of mainstream. So, the addition of the ability to join this conversation with an alias was born. Anyone may log in and add value to this site without the fear of someone misinterpreting their devotion to their employer.
My resolution is simple: I will stick with this blog and focus on Transformations. I will post, at least, 52 weekly entries intended to spur conversation as well as personal & career reflection.
Of course, it’s not the only thing we will see on this site. I fully intend to maintain my focus on mentoring others, pontificating my own “point of view”, sharing my own fascination with the study of the future and any/all tidbits associated with true value. To make things interesting, however, something as personal as transitioning is worthy of my primary focus.
Feel free to jump in. Learn from my mistakes (hopefully this blog isn’t one of them), learn from the experience of others commenting (tbd) and read my thought process and decisions during the next year or so and decide for yourself how you can do the same.
What is your New Years Resolution?
Tags: courage, New Years Resolution, Promise
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December 31st, 2009 at 5:26 pm
well, my resolution is to keep my room clean for as long as it can possibly go. oh..and also to get recognition at the Art Fest this school year. yay