Would you like to go beyond goal-setting to goal-getting? Would you like to cross the greatest gap in life? (The one between knowing and doing!) After more than 40 years as a peak performer in the workplace, find out how Dick uses a powerful tool to focus more on life management than time management. This unique system will help you turn personal resolutions into results, and annual business plans into daily productivity.

Dick Biggs wrote the following column for Atlanta Christian Family magazine’s January 2005 issue. You might be interested to know that Dick has also taught these same peak performance principles for years to clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies and smaller businesses, to government agencies, trade associations and non-profits. Entitled Resolutions & Accountability, here is that column:

Do you make promises on January 1 that you can’t even remember in March? Are you a strong goal-setter and weak goal-getter? Would you like to be more responsible about turning resolutions into results?

If you answered yes to these questions, could it be that you’re struggling to cross the greatest gap in life? I’m talking about the chasm between knowing and doing. It isn’t enough to know what you want. You have to do it, which requires a high degree of accountability throughout the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson understood this principle well when he said: “What I most need is someone or something to get me to do what I already know how to do and what I’ve already said I wanted to do.”

Perhaps Emerson’s quote will be the some thing or I’ll be the some one who causes you to do what you know how to do and what you’ve said you intend to do this year. To help you achieve your goals in the next 12 months, follow these guidelines:

• Do what you say you will do. Otherwise, you’re deceiving yourself, demonstrating poorly for others, and disappointing God.



• Post your goals in a prominent place. Monitor them weekly. Check off your goals as completed.



• Realize that today matters. Prioritize your goals daily and be relentless in pursuing them.



• Meet monthly with a mentor who will hold you accountable. If you’re unwilling to explain your actions, your resolutions are less likely to be implemented unless you’re unusually self-disciplined.



• Reward yourself every quarter. Share your good news with friends over a backyard cookout. Go out to dinner with your family. In short, be sure to share the joy of your progress.



• Celebrate at year’s end with the special people in your life.

It’s critical for our beliefs and behaviors to be congruent. We must understand that our words are mere hype when our ways are hypocritical. If we say one thing and do another, we’re not being true to ourselves, truthful with others, or trustful in our Creator.

Make this the year that you go beyond goal-setting to goal-getting! I dare you to cross the greatest gap in life—the one between knowing and doing. When you do, you’re on the super highway to peak performance.