GPS. Architect. Notebook. 2010.
I am not a natural list-maker. I am not even a natural list-checker to a list I did happen to draft into existence. Therefore, I am a poster child New Year’s resolution-maker in the time-honored tradition of make’ em and miss ‘em, which is fine unless I really want to achieve certain goals in the coming year.
So, if not a list of goals, what then to bring about the new me in 2010?
My natural state is a creative, big picture strategic thinker, quickly seeing connections, opportunities and possibilities in nearly all situations … and now I see my goals for 2010 coalescing around Chris Brogan’s “3 Words for 2010” approach.
Chris uses three words to guide his actions and the projects he takes on throughout the year. As he says, “… what I’m trying to do with the words is come up with something that would take more than a sentence to describe, but that when you think about it, the ideas explode out to fill your head with thoughts of how you might want to conduct yourself.”
Just three words: Got it.
No long list: Excellent.
Big picture thinking: Naturally.
After much pondering and, yes, a LIST of thoughts and ideas, I brewed it down to these three words that have meaning and direction for me in 2010:
1. GPS (God-Positioning System) – On track, attentive and in motion
2. Architect – Build up ideas, build up people, build up situations
3. Notebook – Note what I can learn from others, draft creative ideas in the margins
For another Three Words example, see Cheryl’s.
This’ll be an interesting year for me. I can tell already. A year of changes and achievements in three-part harmony.
Naturally.
