How Do You Approach the New Year?

2012 is finally here and the time has come again where one tries to better themselves with this “fresh start”. Some choose to become involved in fitness, others try out a new diet, and others may decide to pick up a completely new hobby. Whatever it may be, it has become apparent that many struggle to keep focus on achieving the goal they set for the new year.

Although I am not one who looks back at the past much, I want to reference a new beginning that I had committed to at the start of 2011. I told myself that I wanted to start a design business and pursue entrepreneurship. This was definitely the most challenging New Years’ “fresh start” that I have ever made.

Looking now in the present day, I am just a handful of days away from launching a new company of Chris Steurer’s and mine, “blustoy”. Not only did I have the challenge present of starting a new company, but also a challenge in itself to work with someone else where we would need a mutual agreement on many decisions within this start-up. Fortunately, Chris and I share a similar sense of direction while still having complete different skill sets to bring to the table. The moral of this short story is that while there may have been several times where it was easier to just give up and live in the comfort zone, it payed off more so to take a leap into an unknown and experience an adventure of a lifetime.

For this year, I have four (just as significant) challenges that I will face. One will be to graduate college and receive my Bachelor’s degree. Secondly, I will move to the North Side of Chicago leaving my “comfort zone” of living on the Southside. The third will be to find an exciting job after graduation and finally, the greatest challenge, balancing a full-time job with blustoy.

The commitment and dedication I had towards starting this company most certainly has helped prepare me for the coming challenges that will present itself in 2012. I look to 2012 to be the most successful year of my life so far. From graduating, all the way to working with an exciting company and finally, building up blustoy, 2012 will be an epic year.

There you have my approach to New Years resolutions! What is your approach?