Do you have resolutions, or goals, for your career for 2009? Are they written down? If not, take a minute and write them down and hang them up in a spot where you’ll see it everyday (e.g. bathroom mirror).
Vanessa Sheely wrote in “How To Accomplish Your Goals No Matter What” that in 1979, Harvard Business School did a study of their M.B.A. graduates. They interviewed the graduates and asked them among other things if they had clear written goals with plans for their career when they left the school. Only 3% had clear written goals with plans. 13% had goals but they weren’t written down and did not necessarily have a plan. 84% had no goals at all. In follow-up interviews conducted 10 years later the 13% who had goals were earning on average twice as much as those with no goals at all. The eye-opening part was that the 3% who had written goals were earning on average ten times as much at the other 97% put together!
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