The only new year's resolution you should keep

It's that time again. But why should you even bother with new year's resolutions when it's unlikely you will keep them?

Do you know the top 10 resolutions?

1. Lose weight
2. Get organized
3. Spend less, save more
4. Get a better job
5. Quit smoking/drinking/drugs/food pornography
6. Be a better person/parent/spouse/friend
7. Live life to the fullest
8. Read more books and learn something new every day
9. Get fit
10. Spend less money and save more money for retirement or a vacation home!

Some of us are lumpers and others are splitters. If there is one resolution that covers most of the bases for lumpers, invest your time, don't spend it.

For physicians interested in entrepreneurship. here are some investments of your time that will yield potential ROT's (return on your time):

1. Whether to pursue entrepreneurship
2. Which side gig or consulting or advising engagement to accept
3. How and where to network
4. Making mistakes and learning from them investing in the time value of failure.
5. Working for free
6. What to learn
7. Filling the gaps in your personal and professional development plan
8. Volunteering
9. Time with your family and social networks
10. Making luck work in your favor
11. Teaching

12. Spending time being bored

13. What to prune

14. How to let go of the banana

15. The power of negative entrepreneurial thinking

Happy New Year. See you at the gym once or twice in January.

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is the President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs