With a new year come new resolutions, but I think of them more as new habits or ways I want to be a better husband, father, son, brother, friend, and so on. Of course, it also hit me (thanks to an dear accountability buddy of mine Elena) that the way to get a sense of how the past year went would be to categorize and take a look where you are. Unfortunately, for me to do that, that assumes I have systems in place. I have tons of information, and notes and files and images, but what I don’t have is a way to make sense of it all. So the word for 2024 is systems.
Until I get up a system that works for me (currently devouring Building A Second Brain and rereading The Atomic Habits) I am doomed to be as Mel Robbins points out in her Podcast Episode How to Make 2024 The Best Year to be like Googles: I won’t know where to go where I don’t know where I am. And so I sit down, take a moment, be clear on what I WANT not what I SHOULD be doing, and get clear.?I want to be a good lawyer which means I need to know what I have done or am doing for clients which means having files that contain all that information that I may need. I spend far too much time (I won’t say how much) constantly looking for documents because they aren’t named one saved appropriately which forces me to redownload them or look all over until I them. To add that, my laptop crashing and then my transferring all my files to a new MacBook Pro exacerbated things because again it’s a massive bulk transfer that doomed to the same issue.
That stops now. I am sorely tempted to hand this off to someone else, yet I also know the Systems and the Second Brain are about my needs. Until I make the time to declutter my computer, room, garage, car, room, head,.I will continually worry, wonder and question where I am at, forcing me to stay still rather than move forward. And so with that in mind, I have committed (or recommitted) to the following ways that I think will support me:
- A Leadership Mastermind Group (going on second 90 day cycle
- An Accountability Group (going on 5 years)
- Habit Challenge from Crossfit Box
- Professional Alliance BNI Chapter (going on 8 years)
- 4 Legal Seminars each quarter with the first occurring Feb 1st, and for first time will be live streamed and recorded. If interested, click on the link 🙂
- Building a Second Brain
- Beginning new micro habits (will post later)
What are you doing for 2024??
