Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? I must confess to having mixed success with mine. I made one three years ago that has become much easier to maintain as time has gone on. In an effort to improve my fitness I pledged to walk up the stairs to my desk rather than take the lift. My desk is on the top (6th) floor of Mott MacDonald House in Croydon, 124 steps, so not an insignificant undertaking. Given that I also cycled to the station on my Brompton, I also had to lug my bike up all those steps, which was hard work.
I did pretty well and most days I kept to my resolution. It became easier when I decided to start walking to the station rather than cycling and I was generally only using the lift when I was collecting a visitor from reception. I have achieved 100% compliance with my resolution over the last nine months. Not because it has become an established habit but thanks to Covid, I have been working at home where there is no lift and just one flight of stairs to negotiate.
This year I am setting myself some more challenging targets around being more organised:
1) Keep my to do list up to date.
2) Complete my timesheet at the end of each day rather than each week.
3) Do my project management tasks on time
4) Regularly update this blog (at least once per month and preferably more often).
You will know in due course how successful I have been on the last one. The others will largely be known only to me but I must admit I don’t start off with a great deal of confidence in my ability to keep them up as I usually find project deliverables get in the way.
It's grey and goes hard 