Action here is crucial and its often incremental, where we must do one step before and then another after to make progress. Action steps can be another drilled down function of looking at the big picture – we can either guess or we can create a plan to get there.

This is often what is lacking in making traditional resolutions at the start of the year – there is no real plan, habits or due dates for reaching the goal. So by mid-February, most people have already given up.