COMMENT Making new resolutions Editor, Fiona Garcia: fgarcia@datateam.co.uk As we career towards the end of 2017, my mind turns to New


“the idea of making positive


commitments for change and having objectives is a good one”


Year’s resolutions. Do people still make them? When I was growing up, it seems I was asked every year what goals I was making for the coming year or what I pledged to change – usually trying to stop biting my nails or resolving to be tidier. But I feel as though no one seems to ask anymore. Have people simply given up on the idea because so few manage to stick to their plans, with resolutions already forgotten by the time we’re taking the Christmas decorations down? I think the idea of making positive commitments for change and having objectives is a good one. It is healthy with that mindset of a clean slate as we go into the New Year to want to do better and to set your sights on a new target or objective. I’m not spouting the whole ‘New year, new you’ line – unless you feel your busness needs a dramatic change – but a few tweaks here and there or even just the willingness to think about doing things differently rather than sticking to the same old tried and tested method, is a good mindset to have. As Nick Green of Browns Home Hardware said to me this week: “if you keep putting in the same old stuff, you’re going to keep getting the same old out”. Now, I don’t have a great track record with resolutions, but maybe we would have a better success rate if it was a practise we got into the habit of doing more often rather than leaving it until the end of the year and wishing things were different. Before I start sounding like a self-help guru, let me wish you all a very merry Christmas and I will see you in what I hope will be a happy and prosperous New Year for everyone.


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