It’s 2018!!! Welcome to the year of execution! It’s the year to make it all count and make it all happen. My question is what does that look like for you?

Now generally, there’s always talk of New Year's resolutions, some of the most common being, “New Year New Me” or “It’s All About Me In 2018.” Usually, we make these resolutions at the top of the year and we go hard but then somewhere along the way, these resolutions get lost and never return. Why do you think that is? Could it be that we only call it a New Years resolution because that’s all it is? Why don’t we make the resolutions permanent?

This year I told myself that this was the year that I stand boldly in leadership, vision, discipline, obedience, and execution. I don’t plan to lack in anything. But instead of it just being for the year of 2018, these have become pillars and values for my entire life. This goes beyond 2018 and I know that if I have any chance of reaching my full potential and getting to where Shaq ultimately needs to be, these disciplines are imperative.

I too am guilty of letting New Year's resolutions fall by the wayside and I get it, life happens. Things don’t always go as planned. Things get tough. The unexpected occurs and can throw everything off. But what if I told you that regardless of whatever, YOU have complete control of what your life becomes? This can sound so clichè but let’s put it into perspective. We know that there is a lesson in everything and sometimes we miss it. We can think that life is just getting the best of us when all life is trying to show us is what we are actually made of. Consider the last hard thing you endured. It was tough, wasn’t it? But what did you learn from it? What did you become because of it? That’s the key! Learn the lesson and keep it moving.

So I said all of that to say that 2018 is whatever you’re going to make it. Let’s stop talking about it and collectively be about it. Put a deadline to that goal, create a vision board for your dreams and desires, carve out time weekly to strategically plan for that business. Let’s not just do it because it’s a fad. Let’s do it because it’s a lifestyle and it what we actually want. This is not just a yearly thing. In order to be successful and to obtain what WE say we want, we must position ourselves and execute daily! So what does 2018 and beyond look like for you?