resolutionsOn January 4, the Today Show lead off with various and sundry self-improvement strategies — all which could be accomplished within 30 days. I typically greet such recommendations with chuckles and a sort of bemused skepticism, as if we need a starting gate to launch us onto the path of self-improvement. We don’t.

The people I observe who are improving the most and the fastest are those who don’t apply arbitrary time frames to their improvement, that is, they don’t make resolutions. Not in January or any month of any given year. Instead, they simply begin — immediately.

Each day we can create another step toward self-development by changing habits, behaviors and inner dialogue. We need to say, “I’m going to improve in this way or in this manner beginning now and I know how I’m going to do this.”

This isn’t a resolution statement, it’s an accountability one.