I don’t know if you have this problem, but at my meetings everything sounds so great, easy, and attainable. After the meeting fades away, and I am left to live out what was discussed, it seems so difficult like night and day. This is especially true when things don’t go as planned, but regardless as the memories fade, my enthusiasm for the plan wanes. I guess this is only human nature. Seeing this in me, I try to refresh my memories by writing my team weekly updates. Team members report they enjoy them and find them helpful. I will also go back and re-read my IPP to see how it jives with reality Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t, but it should. I talk with my friends and share with them how things are going. I do all this to hang on to t he magic of the annual review. To a large part I succeed. If I work real hard at it the flame for the carrying out the plan will continue to burn, but it is not easy nor come naturally to me. My life has a way of falling into the status quo, safe, comfortingly ruts that get me no where. At least I know that much about myself.