A new year, a new decade and new opportunities ahead. It’s not easy to get back in the swing of things, shares Art Markman. If you’re feeling sluggish and unmotivated, you’re not alone. To snap back into work mode, he recommends the following:
- Focus forward
- Get specific
- Make the right social comparisons
Source: Harvard Business Review, January 3, 2020. Link. Treat the goals you want to accomplish as new challenges and a source of energy, not a penance for things you didn’t get done last year. Set implementation intentions versus abstract goals.
You can’t stop yourself from making social comparisons, but you can explicitly manage those comparisons to motivate you.
INSIGHTS: We have 366 days in 2020. Excluding Sundays and 11 holidays, there are 303 working days. If we exclude full weekends and holidays, 252 working days are available. As of today, we have about 98 percent of 2020 left to accomplish our objectives. < link >