How to Keep your New Year’s Resolutions
It’s almost a joke: People making New Year’s Resolutions that fall by the wayside within a couple of weeks.
You may have some resolutions you want to keep for yourself, business or personal, or you may have clients who want to make resolutions. Either way, here are some simple steps you can take to make those resolutions stick!
The first step to keeping a resolution is to understand the difference between a resolution and a goal:
A resolution is a commitment to make a permanent life change: For example, to stop procrastinating.
A goal is a specific achievement you set your sights on attaining: For example, making six figures by the end of the year.
The way to achieve a goal successfully is to make sure it is specific, measurable, achievable, and has a time/date by which it will be achieved. Vague goals are much less likely to be reached.
For instance, you might set a goal to make $25,000.00 by April 1st. Or, you could set a goal to have a $10,000 month.
So how do you achieve a resolution?
By setting goals that will help you achieve it!
Let’s say you want to stop procrastinating. Choose something specific you want to stop procrastinating on, such as doing a regular newsletter/blog for your business.
Set a specific goal, for example: “I will create and send 4 newsletters by March 1st.” Then set the exact dates you want to send each of the 4 newsletters, and treat them as mini-goals.
Do this process for all of your resolutions, and be sure and break the goals down into mini goals also, so you have baby steps you can achieve along the way. Make sure all of your goals are specific, measurable, realistic, and have a completion date/time.
One reason resolutions fail is they often aren’t realistic. If you’ve always been a procrastinator, it’s a bit unreasonable to expect that suddenly you’ll become a shining example of a proactive entrepreneur.
However by focusing on realistic goals that work toward your resolution, you’ll have a better chance of achieving it, one goal and one step at a time. Once you’ve attained the first goal, set another one, and so on.
Then next New Year’s Eve, you’ll be able to say “I did it! I kept last year’s resolutions! Now I can make new ones!
How cool would that be?
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Thinking back to goals I’ve done, often they were tied into some sort of accountability “definite”, either a promise to a good friend, a big promise to myself … these promises were “done deals” kind of things and the energy to get the task done was monumental.
Other times, goals were just plainly, simply naturally done, no effort, or fuss … odd how that happens.
But, I like the list you have above Kellie.