We’re preparing for our annual Dreaming Your New Year exercise coming up in January. In the meantime, we found this TEDx video of Martin Grunburg exploring the differences between setting goals and setting habits. This is a topic we spend a bit of time on each year in the workshop and we encourage attendees to identify the habits they’ll need to reach their goals. We like Martin’s approach.

For a longer examination of habits and strategies to reach your goals, we recommend Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strengthby Roy F. Baumiester and John Tierney. The authors trace an interesting narrative of the rise, fall, and return of human will over time (as our living conditions improved, and then we began to desire more modern, sophisticated experiences). You’ll likely get hooked as we did by the early section “Why Will Yourself to Read This Book?

We’re curious what new habits you’re sustaining this year, and what goals they’re enabling you to reach. Won’t you share (via the comments below)?