Somehow 2010 has snuck up on us and taken hold. We’re a dozen days into a brand new year and a brand new decade. Do things feel different in your business or in your life? Are you full of renewed energy and passion for what the future might hold? If not, this post is for you.

Over the past six weeks I’ve spent a significant chunk of my harry holiday schedule in Director’s Training for BNI (For those of you who don’t know, BNI (or Business Networking International) is a phenomenal networking organization that I owe much of my success to). On the first day we were given a quote from Michael Gerber’s The E-Myth that has lived with me going into the new year and continues to remind me why we make commitments to improve ourselves each January. Gerber reminds us that,

The work we do is a reflection of who we are. If we’re sloppy at it, it’s because we’re sloppy

inside. . . If we’re bored by it, it’s because we’re bored inside, with ourselves, not with the work.

The work can be a piece of art when done by an artist. So the job here is not outside…but inside

ourselves. How we do our work becomes a mirror of how we are inside.

If you, after just a dozen days, feel like you’re pace is no longer strong or if you have yet to really define what 2010 will look like I am challenging you to step back RIGHT NOW and ask yourself, “What am I doing right now, today, and every day going forward to make sure I’m not sloppy inside?”