The New Year 2020 is on its verge to begin and most of us will be setting New Year’s resolutions.  But, most of these well-intentioned declarations will be abandoned quickly.  Many resolutioners don’t make it past the end of January.Just writing down resolutions will not help you achieve it, you need to plan and act on it.  Moreover, it is very important to reflect back and find out your lessons from the last year.  These lessons will help you in planning for the New Year.As I re-image, re-live and re-experience 2019, my top lessons from the year 2019 are as below:

1. Invest in your personal growth – It is the best investment and ROI will be exponentially very high.
2. Never ever resist for change – Don’t expect change in others, change yourself as it the best source of your growth.
3. Build systems not goals.
4. Define your outcomes - An outcome is different from a goal in the sense that a goal is the means to an outcome. For example, one of your New Year resolution is to start exercising to lose weight.  In this case, your ideal weight may become your goal.  And what is the outcome?  That you will be fit, have a healthy lifestyle, be more active and energetic and you will be able to achieve more and perform better in all aspects of your life.  You will achieve many of your goals in the process of getting your outcomes.  Hence an outcome gives you a bigger picture than a goal.
5. Always visualize your outcome - Visualizations definitely come true.
6. Tell “I love you, you are the best’ to yourself daily – It will boost your self-esteem and confidence.
7. Always believe in yourself – You will achieve anything and everything in life.
8. Learn a new skill – It helps in building confidence and a sense of self-efficacy.
9. Gratitude – Daily write all the things you are grateful for in your life. It will help you stay positive.
10. Deliver Excellence – Whatever you do, do it with excellence. It will make a lot of difference in other people’s lives as well.
11. Be a learner – Learn something new every day. When you learn more about your field, you are able to do more and in a better way.
12. Challenge yourself – It will push your limits.
13. Be consistent – Consistency is the key to mastery.

The decisions you will make in the first month of 2020 will completely set the stage for the entire year.Hope my learnings will help you in planning your 2020 in a very powerful way.Have a rocking year 2020!@AnkitIttan