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2013 - The Year that Worked

An insightful article to make 2013 the year that worked for you!

Are you working for you? Or in spite of you?
 
How many of your new years resolutions have worked for you? How many have not?

Around the beginning of each new year, a tidal wave of choice and opportunities to change the way we can live life washes up against our front doors, surfs down our broadband connections and swamps our inboxes. Lifestyle gurus and their best buddies, technology firms, often appear to be pushing us toward using their tools, to live life their way. “Listen to what I have to say…It changed my life…aye, aye…”

Don’t take it personally – “I-gurus” (as we like to call them) are just following their passions and doing their jobs, spreading the word about how they changed their lives and trying to inspire others to do the same. Don’t resent the fact that most I-gurus don’t seem to understand that January, for you, is more about recovering from last year and getting ready to be swamped with late BASs in February.

Instead, change your calendar to suit YOU. Make March the beginning of your New Year. Harness the energy of those I-gurus, cherry pick the sense out of the Tsunamis of palaver, and use it to become your own best boss. Allow 2013 to be the year that works for you.

Five simple tips – Do they work for you?

• Do what works for you. Be smart and work in a job or career that works for you. That may be a 60-hour-a-week high pressure job, it could be a 25-hour-a-week bookkeeping gig that pays the bills and gives you ample time off to join the circus… Forget about what you’ve been told you SHOULD be doing. Listen to yourself and do what works for you – for your family, your relationships, your community, your world.
• Work hard at what you do. When you discover what works for you, whether the work takes 60 hours or 4 hours of your time each week, work darn hard at performing the work well. Be the best worker you know how to be – then knock-off, go home, enjoy the rest of your life. If you don’t have a life, there is no time like NOW to create the one you want.
• Be consistent. If you start a new job, don’t expect to be an expert in 5 days. Work at it consistently and pretty soon you will be quietly amazed at how much you know.
• Take time off(and be consistent about it!). Grow the life you want to live. Go on, start NOW! Grow a garden, go to the gym, get a hair cut, meditate, sky dive, travel, stay home and read a good book, pat the dog, stroke the cat, call your mum, teach the kids how to make their own beds, bake a cake, tell them stories about life before iPhones – any mobile phones, even… Do whatever floats your boat, not what sinks it along with your spirits.
• Take time to learn something new. Learn a new app, learn meditation, learn Advance Australia Fair – all six verses. Learn more about what works for you.

Allow 2013 to be the year you enjoy being you, rather than trying to be someone else’s version of you.

You will be more productive, more effective and happier across all areas of your life. Go on, I dare you – be the boss of your dreams. Ignore me and do it YOUR way!

Article contributed by Fiona Mac Lean & Coralie Kemp, Remote Bookkeepers

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