Here are few tips to make your New
Year’s Resolutions work:
1. First rate your motivation to
undertake the resolution. How desperate are you in seeking it? Take some time
to work this out. This decides the probability of your success in keeping up
with your resolution.
2. Then switch on your imagination and
imagine yourself doing what you have resolved to do. This will motivate you.
3. Get your best buddy to do a reality
check on your plan. You both brainstorm together the barriers to the intended
plan. How you are going to break through them etc.
4. Your strategy comes next. Break your
long-term goals into smaller simple short term goals. For instance, if losing
weight is the goal, then make it a yearlong plan. Break into smaller components
one at a time. First start off with getting active. Do it for a month. Then add
the next component maybe a small diet change to it. Keeping making he changes
gradually and give good time to get used to each change. Be assured that by the
year end, there would have been a noticeable change.
5. Let your short –term plans be dynamic.
Periodically review, assess and re-orient them to match with the demands of
reality.
Remember that failures are OK. It is
the attempts that matter. In fact failure gives you a reality check on what
matters most for you. As Churchill put it, "Success
consists of going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm." So keep up the
enthusiasm and ENJOY what you are doing. Share your success stories with us.
