Products, Promises, and Irresistible Payoffs
Ah, New Year’s Day Resolutions. Millions of us are making promises to be better people. Some will try to become a different human being. Some will make their radical resolution the center of every conversation. Some will think they deserve a medal for trying. Some won’t think of any reason to bother. Some folks will resolve to buy a new car.
Some won’t get past the thinking.
Almost all of us will falter.
To make a powerful, personal resolution, we can’t be the only ones at center of the payoff.
A powerful resolution serves other people.
A great resolution is like a great product — it makes a promise — and it keeps it. Like a product, it’s not all about the folks who made it. A great resolution builds confidence and influence, because it helps us grow, connects us, and pays off in irresistible and unexpected benefits.
Three Steps to Build Powerful Personal New Year Resolutions
Use these steps to find your own powerful personal New Year’s Resolutions. Pick just one or two, if you want to boost your confidence and influence. Do all three of them if you want to irresistible.
- What do you do or offer that the important people in your life would love to see more of?
Do more of that.
- What do you do or offer that the important people in your life would love to see go away?
Oh, just stop.
- What do you know you might do or offer the important people in your life that surprise, thrill, and delight them?
Why didn’t you think of doing that sooner?
A resolution is a goal wrapped up as a promise. When we keep our promises, we see ourselves as authentic, confident, competent, and trustworthy. To other people see it too and it becomes influence and authority. When our kept promises reach out to and benefit other people, it’s attractive, influential, and can be downright irresistible.
Of course, we’ve got make and keep a powerful promise.
How do your plans to grow this year have other people in them?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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