92 days til’ 13.

Go ahead and say it,

“I can’t believe it’s already October!”

“It will be Christmas before you know it!”

“Where did the year go?”

Get it out of your system. The truth is that year was not dramatically shorter or faster than any other. But last January we said it would be different.

Hundreds of us committed to #FinishYear, a mission to chase our dreams and goals with ferocity and curiosity. We had hope and bright eyes and gumption. (That’s an old timey word, google it.) And then we woke up in October and said, “Where did the year go?”

What happened?

1. We put too many goals on our finish list.

2. We overcomplicated the things we wanted to do.

3. We added goals to our list that we didn’t deeply care about.

4. We made fuzzy goals.

5. We didn’t adapt as our year changed.

I was guilty of all five of those.

Six goals was too many for me to really pursue at the same time.

I should have known at the very beginning I would have a hard, complicated time updating my goals each Sunday. I try to stay offline on Sundays, travel a bunch and didn’t feel great about the idea of scheduling my Sunday updates ahead of time. (I dropped the ball on that commitment to you guys. Sorry about that.)

I never cared about my goal of emptying a box of thank you cards.

I wasn’t specific enough in my goals. (More on that in the weeks to come.)

I didn’t update my goals as I completed some and the year offered me a different landscape than I had first imagined in January.

So now what?

We’ve got 92 days til’ 13.

Get your finish list back out.

Cut the whole list down to one thing. (Unless you’ve already made significant progress on multiple goals.)

Pick a day and time you’ll work on that goal at least once a week for the next 12 weeks.

That’s it.

My goal?

Only spend 5 hours every week on email. That tiny voice of distraction is stealing so much of my time right now. I’m taking forever to email people back and using it as a great excuse to avoid doing the things that matter.

The year isn’t over yet. Don’t let 2012 go out without a fight.

We’ve got 92 days til’ 13.

Use them wisely.

Question:
What is the one thing you are going to work on for the next 92 days?