Business Tips: How to Fulfill New Year’s Promises

 “Everything, on January 1, right in the morning, I will sign up for the gym, I will start learning Japanese, I will do repairs in the apartment, I will get a raise at work” … Each of us perceives the New Year as a kind of final point – and not only fails the results of the year, but also begins to make plans for the future, promise yourself to do what you have long wanted to do. And these plans, as a rule, burrow into the ground already in the morning of the first day of the coming year – for seemingly quite good reasons. And in fact, because it is not enough just to set a goal – it is important to understand how it can be achieved.

The media interviewed businessmen and tried to find out how they fulfill their promises, given by them on the eve of the New Year (and tend to give them to themselves at all), and also asked if they believe in the fulfillment of desires and make them into New Year’s Eve.

Mikhail Goncharov, owner of the Teremok pancake network

“Every day you need to take small steps in the right direction”

It is necessary to completely cut off all the mechanisms of retreat and doubt. No plan is realized when a person begins to reason and prove to himself that something can be done tomorrow or the day after tomorrow or in general cannot be done. The main thing is to be a man of action. If you decide something, you should immediately begin, and everything will turn out, the reasoning in the implementation of plans only hinders. But determination does not deny a reasonable approach to business, for example, a plan.

If you take small steps every day, a whole mountain may emerge from the sand at some point. You just need to move daily in the right direction. Big plans and tasks that are set for the New Year are not realized because of their globality. From time to time I check which plans I have are being implemented and which are not, whether I am satisfied with my general direction of life or not. If you do it only once a year, it’s like going to the ocean, putting the steering wheel in a certain direction, going 5000 kilometers, and then thinking : “Where am I going?”, – look at the compass and see that you are swimming in the wrong direction. It is necessary more often than once a year to think about what you are doing. And to be honest with yourself: people like to be cunning , goofing and feeling sorry for yourself. ”

Alexander Galitsky, managing partner of Almaz Capital Partners

“If you think of simple things, then really – they will come true”

“My strategy is quite simple. It is necessary to identify those tasks that concern you and your business. If you set such a task for yourself and it will stand in the long-term plans, even if you take a step forward, you will be closer to it. I always put I’m trying to move towards them. Even if it turns out to be advanced by 30–50–70%, this is moving forward. The main thing is not to promise myself something to disappoint.

A person should believe in those desires, which he thinks about for the chiming clock. After all, this is the right time to think about the past and the future. If you think of simple things, then really – they will come true. ”

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“There is no concept of” desire “, there is only a goal that must be fulfilled.”

“We need to think with a head. If you give yourself promises that you are not going to fulfill, then you give them because no one can control you. So I don’t give myself such promises, but set specific goals that need to be achieved at a certain time Setting goals is generally the main task of entrepreneurs. And just promising and not doing it yourself is from the category of psychotherapy and schizophrenia. If a person does not know how to set goals for himself from early childhood, then, in principle, it is almost impossible to learn. , about you and so you die. To learn to set themselves the goal is impossible. This is inherent in the genetic level.

I do not consider that there is a concept “desire”. There is only a goal that you fulfill. “Desire” is generally unacceptable in business. There are only verbs and nouns, everything else – from the evil one, schizophrenia. All that is called sentimentality is an incorrect goal setting; this should not be the case in business.

David Yang, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Founder of ABBYY

“On New Year’s Eve there is no need to make a wish about the business”

“I have a feeling that the ability to fulfill promises does not come at the end of December, but with age – if a person studied this from an early age. And if not, then, I’m afraid, no advice will help here. Just in the last days of December, you need to bring started to the end. ”

On New Year’s Eve there is no need to make a wish about a business – this is from the evil one. Make a wish about the family, and set aside business until January 2. ”