Where are your low-hanging fruits?

You may have great ambitions for your new year. Bold actions to take, objectives to achieve, opportunities to leverage, changes to drive.

The question is, where should you start with?

You want to start with something that helps you build momentum, giving you reward and motivation to pursue deeper, tougher goals. You want to build a virtuous cycle early in the year.

It has to be an action that could directly produce results you care about. Results that could lead to more actions or even more challenging goals.

You want to start your year with low-hanging fruits.

Focusing on the low-hanging fruits refers to a strategy of going after easier goals or taking actions that could yield results without much hurdles. It is good to start a year this way because it is a strong morale booster and often lead to positive momentum. If you want to change something in this new year, you want to start off strong with a great morale.

Where are your low-hanging fruits? Take a look at the changes and actions you planned for this year. What feels like it’s easy to do, not quite big a challenge? What are you already doing with just small changes to make? What actions are linked more directly to results you care about?

Make these priorities of the beginning of the year. Once you‘ve done them, take some time to reward and recognise yourself. Notice the positive momentum you build for yourself.

May your 2021 be full of energy and achievements!