9 New Year’s Resolutions To Make For a More Successful Work Year

It feels like just yesterday we were celebrating the beginning of 2020! It’ll be 2021 before we know it, so you should probably start thinking about your New Year’s Resolutions if you haven’t yet! New Year’s Resolutions can be tricky to follow through with, or even come up with. If you’re struggling to think of or commit to a resolution, but want to find a way to better yourself professionally next year, hopefully our simple, easily attainable goals will give you a great starting point:

Learn something new that will help you do your job better

No matter what sort of field you work in, there’s always some way to improve or something to learn that will benefit you! For example, if you’re a school bus driver, you can take a First Aid class, or if you’re a service technician, you can pursue another certification. You’ll feel more satisfied with your job when you can say that you learned something new and bettered yourself through it!

Give yourself more credit

All jobs in all career fields are thankless at times, and many people place too much pressure on themselves. After all, the saying is, “you’re your own worst enemy.” When you start to doubt yourself, just remember that you wouldn’t have been hired for your job if your boss didn’t have faith that you could do it!

Track your “to-dos, doings, and dones”

Disorganization is a fault among many in the workforce and leads to lower productivity. Consider keeping an agenda and track all of your current projects, categorizing them into the three categories of “to-do,” “doing,” and “done.” Determine the priority of everything in your “to-do” category, keep your “doing” category realistically attainable, and move your projects to “done” when you’ve completed your duties. Not only will this keep you on track and minimize the amount of duties that you need to remember off the top of your head, you’ll get to breathe a sigh of relief when you move something to “done!”

Practice being professionally courageous

What are you used to doing when you see something in the workplace which you don’t agree with? Do you stay quiet despite your better judgement? Make a resolution to change that; the next time you see something you don’t think is right, calmly and professionally voice your opinion. You never know, things may change for the better, and you just might gain more respect from your coworkers!

Leave workplace drama behind

Let’s face it; not everybody is going to like you, and not everybody is going to get along. Instead of getting involved in who’s fighting with who and who dislikes who, focus more on your work and your daily activities. After all, the only opinions of you that matter are your supervisor’s and your own!

Let go of grudges

This point ties in with the previous point, but if you’ve been harboring a bad relationship with one of your coworkers, try your best to ditch your bitterness. Toxic relationships with coworkers only make your job unnecessarily stressful, so do yourself a favor and be nice to those you don’t get along with. You never know, they may reciprocate your kindness!

Volunteer for work activities

Many workplaces throw picnics or host other sorts of fun events with their employees, many of which need some employees to help out to make the event fun for everybody. So, volunteer to serve food at the next work picnic, or bring a dish to the next potluck luncheon. You’ll be able to work and bond with people you don’t usually get to interact with and have a bit of fun in the process!

Adopt healthier habits at work

It’s easy to feel negative about work when you constantly engage in unhealthy habits whilst at your workplace. Take steps to improve your health while at work; they don’t even have to be drastic changes! If you sit at a desk, take time to get up and stretch every hour or so, or pack a healthy lunch instead of running to the nearest fast food place on your lunch break. You’ll be amazed how much your mental health can improve along with your physical health!

At the end of the day, do something just for you

If you’re the type of person who continues to worry about what happened at work after you go home, you might benefit from getting a new hobby! Improving your work-life balance is essential to improving your attitude and productivity while you’re at work; what better to take your mind off work than something you do for nobody but YOURSELF? Read a book, make some crafts, play an instrument, and enjoy something you love to do.

Thanks for reading; hopefully you have a better idea of what resolution you want to commit to in 2021. If you feel like sharing, let us know in the comments what your New Year’s Resolution will be!

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