Blow the Top off Your New Year’s Resolutions - 10 Signs You Had a Good Year

Pittsburgh, PA, December 19, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Corner Office Impact Coach and president of StartingOverNow.com Mary Lee Gannon says the best way to plan for 2016 is to size up how you did at 2015. “Setting resolutions is like lighting a short candle on a dark room at the beginning of the night,” says Gannon. “Of course it will burn out before dawn.” Her “10 Signs You Had a Good Year” is where she advises people to start reflecting on who they want to be in the next year, not what they want to have or do.

Mary Lee created these practices as a single mother of four children under seven-years-old struggling through a divorce that took her and her children from the country club life to public assistance from where she reinvented her life to support her family. These mindful philosophies kept her and her children grounded and focused on the things that matter.

Today Mary Lee is the CEO of St. Margaret Foundation, a $24 million organization at UPMC St. Margaret Hospital and also serves as a business coach for people who want to get off the treadmill to nowhere and play big in the corner office.

10 Signs You Had a Good Year

1. You look back and celebrate the growth not only in your life and career but in that of others - without judgment, comparing or resentment. There is room for everyone to thrive.

2. You noticed and developed more of what you wanted than what you didn’t want. Your dreams matter.

3. You transformed expectations into openness with curiosity and compassion. You’ve swapped results for reasons and worry for being enough.

4. You put down your guard and risked standing in the open, admitting your fears and allowing vulnerability to be your guide instead of panic to be your shield.

5. You made decisions authentically - not to please others or ward of conflict. The decisions may not have always worked out but you were true to yourself and have learned from the experience of choice.

6. You had the humility to invite feedback in areas where you used to be too proud. You were grateful for the feedback and readjusted your direction based on this valuable insight.

7. You see challenges as new opportunities to develop patience and calm. You smile at the thought of exploring possibilities.

8. You’ve let go of things whose time has passed and anger over things you can’t change. In doing so your world is more vibrant.

9. You now live in the moment and don’t fast forward to a doom and gloom ending. You need not control or know the outcome. You set goals and allow the form to follow.

10. You see setbacks as situational and not personal, permanent or pervasive. It’s all part of your amazing life. Bring it on.

Mary Lee Gannon, ACC, CAE is an award winning Corner Office Impact Coach, author, speaker and president of StartingOverNow.com – a consulting firm that helps people get off the treadmill to nowhere and play big in the corner office with mindful leadership practices. Mary Lee has a unique perspective with 20+ years as a CEO and currently leads St. Margaret Foundation in Pittsburgh, a $24 million organization within a 60,000 employee organization, as well as coaches executives on how mindful practice, and a mindset shift lead to more confidence, connections, calm for the high earning corner office leader.

Mary Lee’s personal turnaround came as a stay-at-home mother with four children under seven-years-old who endured a divorce that took her and her children from the country club life to public assistance from where she re-invented her life to support her family.

Mary Lee is an International Coach Federation Certified Coach, graduate of Duquesne University's Professional Coaching Program, a Certified Association Executive, a participant in the UCLA Mindful Awareness Practices Program, an alumnus of the Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital Coaching in Medicine & Leadership Conference, and author or two books: Reinvent You – From Welfare to CEO and Starting Over. Mary Lee was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by Pittsburgh Society of Association Executives and the Women of Integrity Award by Pittsburgh Professional Women. Mary Lee is the "Mindful Leadership" columnist for Smart Business Magazine. She’s been featured in Money Magazine, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, Yahoo.com, U.S. News and World Report, msn.com, Forbes.com, CareerBuilder.com and Monster.com.