 Happy New Year, guys! You're probably making your New Year resolution right now. When you look back in 2019, what have you accomplished? Imagine you're 80 years old, you're sitting on a rocking chair in front of a fireplace, and your grandchildren ask you, friend daddy, what's your biggest accomplishment in your life? It might take a while to come up with an answer. If you do not set a goal correctly and consistently pushing towards your goal, life just flies by very quickly without getting lots of things done. Today, I'm going to share with you a couple of strategies to make sure you accomplished your goal in 2020. So something about myself. I am Dr. Nancy Lee. I teach negotiation and interview tips to help engineers and international professionals to get control of their life and career. I received my PhD in three and a half years. On average, it takes people about five years to get a PhD, and right now I manage a team of product managers in a Fortune 20 technology company. I believe I have lots of, like, probabilities and helps you guys to achieve your goals and learn things faster than others. So today, let me share with you the six steps to achieve your New Year resolution in 2020. Step one is a rocking cheer test. So this is very important. It's single most important step. If you do not accomplish this, you will never achieve your goal in 2020. So the rocking cheer test helps you to understand what is your ideal life? What do you really want? Without knowing what you really want, you will never put all the drills, the energy, the motivation determination behind your goal to achieve the goal. You got to know where you want to go. So this one minute rocking cheer test is going to help you to find the answer. Make sure you do this exercise. If you do not do this, I can guarantee most of the energy is going to go into waste. The second step is understand why. Why is very critical. If you do not understand your why, you will easily give up on your dream. And in addition, the why itself has been very emotional. Let me tell you my personal example how I found out my why, what my why is. My dream is to open 100 schools in China to teach kids from mid-income, low-income families about entrepreneurship. But until I found out my why behind it, I started to cry. When I found out the reason behind this dream was that I've been living that life that was in control by my parents. I made a full story, full video about this, you can take a look at here. And whenever when I had the imagination of me living the life that my parents designed, I just felt like my hair was falling off. Super, super uncomfortable. When you had similar kind of feelings, you probably found your true why. You need to attach it with something emotional such as maybe related to lots of pain you had in the past, or lots of pleasure. So all the emotional reason behind your why is the true reason. Believe me, I have other students in my class took the same exercise. And their answer why you want to become a CEO of a company was just I want to make more money. I want to make a bigger impact. But why you want to make a bigger impact? You need to drill down. Those emotional why is going to fulfill you so hard to make you understand this is the right go for me. Step three is to break down your go and find out how to get there. So for example, if you want to lose weight in 2020, you can break it down by having a better nutrition and workout three times per week and in addition, hire a personal trainer. So something you really want to emphasize and that tells you how would you differentiate yourself from other people is that how you achieve it really makes a difference. You need to put the time and the money to get to your goals. For example, lots of people like to improve their public speaking skills, right? And the multiple ways to get there, you can buy a $10 book from a best author on Amazon, right? And those $10 book might be able to help you to do better. But imagine how many people read those $10 books became the biggest public speaker that immediately became better. Probably zero. So the next level above $10 book is to practice in a Toastmaster Club one hour per week for free. I've seen lots of people go into Toastmaster for 20 years and 20 years later they finally became the next big public speaker that improved significantly. But imagine that do you want to wait for 20 years to improve your public speaking skills? Probably not. So therefore people like me also go to next level. We take like two days immersive like workshop or book camps and helps you to improve it. So the next level above it is to join like a three month program. Have a coach doing one-on-one with you, give you a strategized customized approach. And of course those coach take cost more money but I believe those specific advice to you is going to help you to improve yourself, achieve your goals much faster than other people. So that's what I mean when you decide how to achieve it. You need to put the time and the money. If this is the right goal we set at the very very beginning, step four is measure it. This sounds very simple but lots of people do not do. So once you set a goal if you do not have the measurement you will make no progress. For example my fiance and I like to work out three times a week. So we have a calendar put on the bathroom mirror. Whenever we work out we put a cross on the calendar to remind us this will have done so far, how many times we went to the gym. So this measurement is going to hold you accountable for the progress you can make. Number five is the single most important factors that relate to lots of people who is not able to achieve their goal, who give up too early, which is the accountability partner group. Do you know the majority of the small businesses had a single decline of the revenue in April every year? That was because lots of people give up on the New Year resolution in April. They want to go to a gym, they sign up for the gym membership for three months, then they stop it and cancel the gym membership. I guess busy, we all get very lazy including myself. But I figure out a really good strategy to hold each other accountable through the accountability partner group I've built in the past three years. So let me give you an example what it looks like for accountability partner group. And last year I matched myself with one of my best friend Tiffany. So Tiffany's goal is to learn how to play piano. Every week we text each other to check in with each other what's your progression towards your goal. By the end of the year, which is a week ago, I was so proud. Tiffany had a piano recital in her piano school and she played Bach Minuet in major G. It was so amazing. I'm so happy to see her playing the grand piano in front of the audience of like hundreds of people. This is the kind of accomplishments we have made together. And at the same time, Tiffany held me accountable to start my YouTube channel and make me push YouTube videos once per week. This is what I've done. Yeah, guys! There are lots of ups and downs when you're working towards the goals. It's important to have somebody behind you to like love you non-conditionally. Just give you support saying that it's okay to take one week break but I believe you can get there. Come back up. Let's work on the goal together. See, lots of people have reached out to me about New Year resolution because they have seen lots of like progress in me and the people around me how we accomplish our goals. What I decided is that I'm going to open up my accountability group network to people in my YouTube channel and also my Instagram subscribers. And whoever want to achieve their goal and being very serious about getting things done in 2020, you can join this Facebook group to sign up for the accountability partner group. In it, we're going to do some survey and help you to match with another person. And then you can hold each other accountable towards your goal. In addition, the whole group will be guided by me. I had three years of running accountability partner groups experience and I know what works, what doesn't work. So the whole process will be guided by me and the details to descriptions will be in the description of this video. So if you want to sign up, please make sure you join the group. And number six, do this goal setting exercise once per quarter. So I personally do not make New Year resolution. I make quarterly resolution. The reason is that people start to slack off. I told you earlier, it's really difficult to consistently going after goal again and again. But it's really important to reflect on yourself. Is it still the right goal for me? Once per quarter, you sit down together, watch this video again to use the six steps I just told you to repeat the process. Understand, is this still the right goal? Did I set my goal to ambitious? Did I set the measurement correctly? So all those seem to revisit every quarter. Then you are able to achieve your goal in 2020. This is Dr. Nancy. You may also wonder how I got my PhD in three and a half years. What kind of secret have I used to be much faster than most people around me? I'm going to make a video to tell you the secret behind it. If you want to see the video, make sure you turn on the notification button and subscribe so that you will be the first person getting notified once the video is out. If you're interested in the accountability partner group, here's a link down below and hope you all achieve your goal in 2020. Bye.