Resolutions

Without resolution - there is no coordinated or coherent action.

Without resolution, you will still get results, but they'll be unreliable and inefficiently produced.

In resolving to do something, we organise our systems and resources around that thing, we focus on it and what it takes to achieve it. We make decisions about what it needs. We allocate time to it. It allows us remove our attention from non goal things. We get clarity.

I think we also enjoy the process more than when we're less focused or focused on too many things. When we care about something, we feel the progress often before we see it.

Why is that?

Because by resolving to do something, we are saying that we care about it.

It means something.

It means more than other things.

It allows us drop things or ignore things or cut things out that aren't consistent with the goal.

The thing we are saying, out loud, that we care about.

So, in many ways, the result becomes less important.

The process becomes the important work.

The result is not just an end of year data point.

Results become live and dynamic points of achievement, of completion, of celebration.

When the process becomes the important thing, the original end result can seem itself like a way point.

You get to the end and realise that it's not the end.

It's just another point in the process.

Enjoy the process!