New Years’ resolution is a declaration of something we wish to achieve during the year. The only difference between a New Year resolution and any other career or life goal is that we use January 1st as a fresh start for making a significant change in our behaviour or life.
Most New Year’s resolutions are headed for failure even as they are being conceptualized because they lack one critical component – WHY. We need to write down why we want to achieve our goal. Whether our goal is to exercise more, save enough for retirement, start a business, or run a marathon, ask ourselves why we want to do it, and how will achieving this goal change our life? It is not easy to answer the “why” question, but this forced introspection makes all the difference by leading us towards goal attainment.
While we figure the WHY, it’s also important to follow the below steps to ease our journey to the end goal.
1. Write It Down On Paper: It has been proven in studies that the process of writing down—by hand—our goals, aims or resolutions will make us more likely to achieve them.
2. Make It Fun: Add some spirit to our 2022 goals. We probably know that goals should be specific and time-bound, yet goals are a joy to achieve when we are playful at attaining them! Reward ourselves with prizes at significant goalposts. Make goals inspiring and fun to accomplish.
3. Create A Vision Board: One of the best ways to really crystallize our New Year’s resolutions is to create a vision board. Start by collecting images and words that represent what we’d like to achieve and how we’d like to feel. Put these together into a collage. Then sit back and truly connect to the vision we have for ourselves. Put our vision board somewhere where we can see it every day. Then make it happen!
4. Prepare ourselves For Change: I’ve studied “readiness for change” for many years, and it is clear that the No. 1 reason resolutions don’t stick is that people don’t do the work to prepare themselves for the change. Lasting change doesn’t happen until our mind is ready, which includes seeing more pros to change than cons. This takes mental work. Lasting change doesn’t happen when we just make ourselves do something different.
5. Make our Goals Incremental: It’s helpful to have smaller milestones to spur regular action, limit procrastination and measure progress. Rather than “eat lunch with 10 people in the corporate department in the next six months,” define the goal as, “eat lunch with two people in the corporate department each month for the next six months.”
6. Set Goals That Align With our Everyday Life: Resolutions are nice to have, but they are often not accomplished because we are too busy with other things. A good way to ensure we get them done is to turn them into written goals that are exclusively ours and in harmony with our everyday life.
7. Map It Out And Take Action: We wouldn’t have been given the dream if we didn’t have the power to move into it today. Sit down, map it out, find resources and take action. we can always perfect the plan as we go.
8 Aim To Be Better Than We Were Yesterday: Personal and business lives are always evolving, and we encounter obstacles that we have to overcome. The goal is not to be perfect or to achieve something spectacular. Hence progress and improvement can only be measured in context. Being better in one area than we were yesterday is not only simple to understand but easy to achieve.
Remember, a resolution doesn’t need to be tied to New Year’s. It can be following a weekend, following a birthday, so if we missed our New Year’s goal, we can start again tomorrow, on a Monday, after Valentine’s Day or any marker that means something to us, just as long as we’re ready to give it another go. It won’t guarantee success, but we don’t need to wait until another year comes around on the calendar to give it another go. And be kind to ourselves. When resolutions run off the rails or fall apart but we still want to try again, talk to ourselves like “a child who’s feeling discouraged. we wouldn’t say ‘that’s because we’re an idiot.’ we would say ‘come on we can do it.
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