A Sage Leader's New Year Begins With Using Velcro

It's not yet a week from New Year's and you are back at work. The first day back it is fun to catch up with everyone and hear about their holidays. You have a grace period to reorient back to reality.

The second day in, the slip slider invades. This is what I call what happens when you start to come off the high of your new year's resolution. Day two it's time to get serious. Whether it is an official resolution or just an intention, I invite you to focus on how you want this year to be different than last year. What do you want to create or get rid of?If you really want to create a new and different experience this year then you need to velcro the energy and inspiration you had at new year's to your brain so you don't allow the potential for negative thoughts to invade and derail you. The sage leader understands that post-holiday and mid-winter blues can easily invade the best laid plans.

I am in Connecticut, USA, and we are under about a foot of snow...so it can be a cozy and hibernating or depressing - sun depletion time, depending upon what you allow in. I find the cold invigorating and the quiet of the snow inspirational. If you are experiencing the post-holiday letdown, make sure to invite in a blanket of comfort and something that will allow you to stick to your vision of the new you in the new year. You want it to be untouchable like teflon amidst changes - in your moods, in your team, in the economy.

Tenacity is the wisdom of success.