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Dear Reader,
Easter is past and, just as in Christianity Easter marks the end of Lent, many other cultures celebrate with their own festival the approach of spring. Just the right time to consider an important date – March 31st. On March 31st, 2010, the first 90 days of 2010 ended.
How were your first 90 days?
Many studies confirm a fact that most people know. After the first 90 days of a new year at the latest over 80 percent of people have “thrown” their New Year‘s resolutions “overboard” again. I‘m sure that you as an active reader don‘t belong to this group – nevertheless, please allow me to ask here what has become of your goals for 2010.
How often did cast a glance at your goals during the first 90 days of the New Year? How often did you check your own progress? Which of the goals you set have turned out to be “only achievable with difficulty” or “not interesting enough to pursue”?
My first coach always said to me:
“Most people overestimate what they can achieve in one year and underestimate what they can achieve in 5 or 10 years.”
If you think about this proposition for a moment, it appears completely logical and comprehensible – and precisely there lies the danger! People read this proposition just as they also read other thoughts and lessons and tell themselves: “That‘s really logical and isn‘t really anything new.” But what do you learn from this proposition or other similar propositions? Do you perhaps check off the proposition without absorbing and implementing the knowledge it contains?
Assume for a moment that you didn‘t check this proposition off. Then the question is posed what lessons and thus what actions can be deduced from it. And it was precisely this question that I was confronted with [click to continue…]
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