Examine your list of top priorities and subsequent action items. These are likely things you and your colleagues can do, check off, and be done. If the lists are short, focused, powerful, and aligned, that is excellent.

But it is not enough. There is one more question that deserves consideration as the new year kicks off. What do you want to be?

Do you want to be:

• More decisive
• A better listener
• Bolder
• Less defensive
• More of a team player
• A better leader
• More open-minded
• Fit and thin
• An expert

The list of possibilities is endless and the choice applies to you personally as well as to your company. What kind of company, division, or department do you want to be?

Focus is just as important when striving to be something as when striving to do something because you don’t become something without doing something.

So what do you want to become during 2012? Resolve to make it so today!