Resolutions, Revisited.

Last year, I posted Ten Resolutions for the New Year on this blog.  Reading it again, I realized it is one of my all-time favorite posts -- and mirrors my own personal resolutions for 2010 and beyond. 

I wanted to share it with you again this year.  I hope you enjoy it.

1.  Resolve to be better to everyone.  Start with yourself.

2.  Resolve to choose your customers as carefully as friends, knowing that you’ll work best when they’re one in the same.

3. Resolve to know your business better.  Recognize that being good atwhat you do is unimportant if you’re not good at being in the businessyou’re in.

4.  Resolve to stop doing the things your customersdon’t pay you to do, unless you love doing them so much, you’d do themfor free.  Because you are.

5.  Resolve to value your life by the things you experience instead of the things you possess.

6. Resolve to eliminate the things in your life that wake you up in themiddle of the night -- unless you’re married to them, or they need togo outside for a walk.

7.  Resolve to become more useful to yourcustomers.  Stop thinking about what they expect from you, and focusinstead on what they don’t expect from you.

8.  Resolve tohelp the people who work with you (and for you) become better at whatthey do.  Give them what they need to excel at their jobs, and you’llfind you’re more likely to excel at yours.

9.  Resolve tounderstand the difference between what you do for clients and how longyou take to do it.  They care about the former, and can’t understandwhy you charge for the latter.

10.  Resolve to do the work youlong to do, instead of the work you’ve been doing for too long.  Followyour passions, honor your principles and strive to add value to everyrelationship you’re in. “Next Year” begins now.  Get started on makingit great!