Setting Personal Objectives For The New Year
The end of one year and the start of another brings the opportunity and inspiration for many to consider their situation and plan for the year ahead. We all hope that we will end the New Year better off in our personal lives than we start it. By better off, we may mean financially, in terms of happiness and relationships, in our careers and lifestyles, in fact, in any aspect of our lives.
If we start the year with a positive intent on improving our lives somehow, then there is a good chance we can succeed in so doing. One of the ways we can help ourselves succeed is by setting personal objectives for the year ahead. It has long been a tradition to make New Year's resolutions. They are an example of objective setting, usually correcting a personal weakness, such as smoking or being overweight. However, New Year's resolutions are quite often just a bit of fun and not taken seriously. Planning for the entire year based on a set of objectives can be a much more beneficial way to improve yourself over a year.
New Year's resolutions, however, do hint at one way to set personal objectives for the year: they tend to be about addressing the weakness. If you have a personal liability at the beginning of the year and have strengthened it by the end
