Four ways to start 2020 on the wrong track

You’ve probably spent part of December thinking about 2020.  Perhaps you already have a strategy and game plan to start January.
Or perhaps not.  And even if your organization and/or department has goals set for the new quarter and year, do you know what you’ll be doing come January 2nd?  Do you know what you need to work on, how you’ll do it, and which projects you’ll put aside?
At the end of each year I often hear people make resolutions around their focus, discipline and time management – only to feel like they’ve lost their way again all too quickly.  If this sounds familiar, or even if it’s something you want to avoid in 2020, don’t make the mistakes I and many others have made in the past.
Here are four ways to start 2020 and guarantee you’ll feel stressed, harried, overwhelmed and unproductive.
Work without a plan
It would be easy, of course,