1.     Get sufficient sleep

2.     Honor your word

3.     Learn something new every day

4.     Exercise

Sleep

For teenagers and kids: Are you subject to the Teenage Sleep Trap. It starts the day school gets out. You stay up a little later than usual and sleep in a little later than usual. By the time the first week of vacation is complete, you have reversed the day.  You sleep during the morning hours and play while everyone else is asleep. Ever wonder why you are so tired during vacation? Now you know.

For adults: Ever feel tired about 3 PM? Don’t you just crave a nap? A study conducted to improve production at NASA found that a 26-minute nap improves production by 34 percent. Sufficient sleep at night affects brain agility the next day.

Resolution #1 – Get sufficient sleep and stay on schedule

Honor Your Word

We live in a world where words are cheap, if not meaningless. “I’ll call you tonight around 5 PM” really means I may think about calling you if I’m not doing something else more important or fun.

The meeting starts at 8:30 sharp really means you can meander in around 8:40 and you’ll be one of the first to arrive.

“I’ll take care of it for you” really means unless something comes up. Sometimes it means unless it’s more difficult that it appears.

Resolution #2: Honor Your Word

Learn something new every day

Escape mediocrity and be better today than you were yesterday. Review your day and ask what you could have done better. Solve the root cause of a problem or a weakness and discontinue shuffling your symptoms. Feeling good about trying is a euphemism for failure. Every human can progress and learn something new each day. Start with a small and simple success and work forward.

Resolution #3: Learn something new every day

Exercise

Exercise boosts brain power. Exercisers outperform couch potatoes in long-term memory, reasoning, attention, and problem-solving tasks. Integrate exercise into your daily routine.

Resolution #4: Exercise

How?

Have you taken a serious look at your system for living? Is your system producing the kind of results you want? If not, retrain or fire your system.

94% of all failure is a systems malfunction.

Or

6% of failure is human error.

Either way, the solution is a systems issue that can be addressed. You are the catalyst for change.

Happy New Year!