Today is New Years Eve, as everyone is getting ready for the new year it is always a good practice to look at the past year take measure of the tasks we accomplished and where we fell short of our goals. Another good practice is to look ahead and map out a course for the new year. This could mean setting long term and short term goals. As a project manager, I am used to doing this kind of hot wash for my projects, but I also find it useful for for my personal and professional development as well.
Some people call these goals "New Year Resolutions." This is sort of a joke, since we all know that New Years Resolutions are frequently abandon after a few weeks. This is why well thought out and developed goals are different. Well developed goals include the end state, the method to achieve the end state, and how we are to measure progress of the goal.
So as I work over the next few days, I will be thinking of goals. I have goals for this blog. I have goals for my personal and professional development. I have goals for my work. All these goals will come together and I will prioritize them for the coming year.
I will have to say that I am pleased by the way 2017 turned out. I completed some very difficult projects as work. I completed some important personal goals. All these things pave the way for the completion for some related and some new goals for 2018. I will be blogging more consistently, hopefully people will like my work and find it useful. I have some new projects to start and some to finish for 2018. I feel that 2018 will be a great year.
