Three Weeks Into 2026 — Are Your Improvement Goals Still Alive?

It’s January 21st.

By now, the excitement of new year, new goals have either turned into momentum… or silence.

They say it takes about three weeks to build a habit and only three days to break one. So, here is your call to action.

How are your performance improvement goals holding up? Are they still moving forward in small, deliberate steps—or did daily pressure quietly push them aside?

And an even more important question: Do you know where to start?

Have you:

• Defined what needs to improve?

• Identified clear targets for improvement?

If not, how will you?

Here’s the good news, you don’t have to change everything all at once.

On a project I’m working on right now, we’ve focused on small, incremental changes, one step at a time. Each deployment builds on the last. Those improvements have compounded—and so far, the process is performing 74% better than where we started.

No heroics. No massive transformation. Just steady, intentional progress.

If things have fizzled, that’s not failure. It’s feedback.

The real question is this: What’s the next practical step you’re willing to take—today?