Focus For A New Year
Every New Year encourages people to focus on resolutions. Typical resolutions are personal such as healthy living, controlling finances or self-improvement. Creating these lists can help you plan a successful course of action that can last the entire year. Here are a few more suggestions for your list: simplification, developing expertise and sharing.
Simplification is not the same thing as simple. Simple implies that you lack the mental capability of dealing with complex ideas or strategies. Simplification is taking the complex to manageable levels. Since most of the problems surrounding you, work or personal, are multi-layered, simplification is the technique of identifying the need or problem and working layer by layer.
Here is an analogy: mowing a lawn. You start at the edges and work your way to the center. The clippings are always pushed out to the edge and not in your path. Imagine how difficult it is to begin in the center and try to work your way out. It won’t take long for the clippings to clog your mower and all the quick turns to become discouraging. Trying to attack problems or issues at the core are the same.
Second on your list is to develop expertise in a niche area. People want experts – look at the popularity of electronic and computer technicians. Time cannot be purchased and most people don’t have time to learn, especially with the rapid turnover of knowledge in the world today. Obsolescence can be realized in a matter of months and not generations as was the case in the last few centuries. Five years ago there was no need for experts in LCD or plasma technology. By next year, the need will be overwhelming as more people purchase these kinds of products. Pick a field of interest an develop a depth of knowledge that will set you apart from others.
Finally, be willing to share. In today’s world there is enough financial wealth to solve hunger and poverty, provide quality education and healthcare and create communities that can deal with an uncertain future. But, people can’t overcome greed and hoarding of resources.
Sharing also refers to knowledge. There’s the old saying that knowledge is power; but the flip side is: without sharing knowledge has no value.
So as you contemplate your to-do list for 2008, think about the suggestions offered above and decide if they are right for you. Have a safe and prosperous New Year!
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