How to Make Your New Year’s Resolution Successful

As we turn the calendars to a new year, there are often many things on our minds. One of those things may be your New Year’s resolution. Let’s take a minute to talk about the resolution. It has gotten a bad reputation as something that “won’t work” or is “destined to fail”, but it is still important to set goals for the coming year.
Goals are the best way for you to recover from the holiday season gone by. What’s the difference between a goal and a resolution? Great question, a resolution is a grand declaration or something that you decided to do on December 31st.

A traditional resolution takes about as much time to think about as it does to announce. And the typical resolution is also forgotten just as quickly. Goals on the other hand are a plan. Notice it’s not goal, but goals. It takes a series of goals to make up a plan. If you want to make a change that lasts a year, you need to break it up into steps. Each step is a goal in itself and will bring you to the next level. As you progress through each of these levels, you should be well on your way to the overall goal.

Think about your goals as a road map. When you are on a trip and question if you are going the right direction, you can always look back at your map. If you are off track, simply look at the map and find the best way to get back on. Without the map, not only do you not know where you are going, but you also don’t know if you are on track or not. By setting goals and having a plan, you can be sure that you are going the direction you want to be going.

What is the best plan? For starters, it should be something you really want to accomplish. Take your resolution and break it down into smaller steps. Start with something small and realistic. When you have mastered that step, it’s on to the next. With each step you take, not only are you moving toward your goal, you are creating new habits.

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