Traditionally, resolutions are set at the start of the year – that’s one of the reasons we call them New Years resolutions.

So maybe I’m being odd because yesterday I read a book about setting them.

It’s on Kindle (although I got the paperback version as I prefer real books). Oddly Amazon doesn’t link the paperback and Kindle versions but I’m sure there’s some logic behind that.

The book is by someone you’ve probably never heard of – David Hyner. I’ve known him for years and he’s a very successful public speaker but a lot of his speaking is done in schools and in companies. Often in front of hundreds and even thousands of people.

In print, the book is about 134 pages but it’s a quick read.

You can check it out on Amazon here in the US and here in the UK.

If you’ve ever made a resolution or set a goal for you’re business, you’ll recognise saying “Right… that’s it!…. I mean it this time!”

And you’ll probably also recognise the feeling a few weeks later when that wasn’t it, you didn’t really mean it and your dream is no further forward.

We’ve all done that.

Usually more than once.

The reason I decided to be odd and read the book now, rather than wait until January, is that I’d like to take some action on one or two things and I’d like to start now.

It’s only convention that we wait until January to do this kind of thing.

So in reality there’s nothing too odd about doing it at other times of the year.

A bit of history on David:

He’s spent a long time interviewing successful people. Not as long as the 20 years Napoleon Hill spent but certainly he’s interviewed lots of people and whereas Napoleon Hill mainly interviewed businessmen and leaders, David has interviewed all sorts of people in business, sport and lots of other things in life.

One of the questions David always asks is how they think they’ve been successful and the answer always boils down to setting massive goals.

We’re almost always taught to set them as realistic and achievable.

And that’s the opposite of what successful people do.

Think about that for a minute.

Elon Musk has currently set SpaceX the target of launching 4,425 new satellites to provide incredibly fast internet coverage for the whole world (1Gb per second if you want to get technical), That’s over 3 times the number of active satellites currently orbiting our planet. Which – at first glance – doesn’t sound too achievable. His mooted Mars mission is even more off the chart.

Back in the 1950’s, Roger Bannister set himself a goal of running a 4 minute mile – that seemed totally impossible and unrealistic at the time but he managed it and it’s been beaten since then, including someone who’s run 2 miles in less than 8 minutes and another who’s run a sub-4 minute mile 135 times in their career.

Unrealistic, unachievable, goals or resolutions are part of what mankind does.

And you don’t have to be a superstar to do them.

David shows you precisely what you need to do (you can get a shorter version of the Kindle books in this free Word document)

And – keeping on the odd things theme – following what he teahces, these unrealistic, unachievable goals almost magically become achievable and realistic because they happen.

Your choice.

Follow this, be “odd” and get things done in your life.

Or just put up with being ordinary and believing your excuses that you can’t do stuff.