What if you knew something big was about to happen this year? Loss of a job or the opportunity you’ve been waitng for?
Positive or negative, most people hope for the best, worry about the rest and wait for news to break. Yet, in a world of great uncertainty and constant change, as things get less and less predictable, we can and must do more to build our own resilience and when better than at a break of a new year.
3 steps to get going
Start with predictions and clarity – what scenarios might you come across this year? what clues do we have to suggest what’s coming? our ability to be predictively clear about those, serves as the starting point for decisions and actions that can help us build our resilience and opportunities. Whilst we can’t plan for every scenario – most people can make some pretty good guesses to start where it really matters.
On to choices – what can you start doing today to enable you if any of those scenarios happened? should I refresh your CV in a possible scenario of a job loss? how about refreshing my network (YES!) as we all know, networks work best when kept warm rather than ad hoc/opportunistic.
Take small consistent actions- a huge body of research about habits has reached one (of few) clear conclusion- small consistent actions drive meaningful changes so once you have defined your actions, just keep going at a steady pace, one step at a time, to build accumulative results.
Some might think that starting a new year with possibly some negative predictions or scenarios might be adopting a glass-half-empty approach. I, however, feel that for most people, clarity provides a powerful sense of direction and so, can work in our favour in the best way possible,
Now, we can wrap up in the warm blankets of optimism, hope, and a bit of luck, knowing that we are already working for ourselves, on ourselves, which is a great way to start a new year.
