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Keep your New Year’s resolutions! Avoid forgetting, regretting, or simply abandoning your resolutions with five easy steps. Watch our segment on The View From The Bay! Then use the below as your personal “cheat sheet!”
This is the Danger Zone! 3 weeks in to the New Year is a critical point when people start forgetting, regretting, or simply abandoning their Resolutions. Will you be one of the majority who give up or one of the mighty few who stick with what you’ve decided to do?
How to keep your Resolution: There’s no Resolution police! Nobody will come along to punish you for not keeping your plan. But if you made one-you can create your own system of enforcement with 5 easy steps:
1. Tell the world-at least, tell your girlfriends
2. Make a plan-write it down, create a mantra
3. Make short-term, specific goals
4. Try and try again: Notice when you are not living up to your new goal-and give yourself permission to try again. Every day if you need to.
5. Figure out what the barriers are. For example, if you want to lose weight but going to a gym makes you uncomfortable, try walking in your neighborhood, or an all women’s gym, etc.
Why people don’t keep their Resolutions:
-Too big a task
-Too big a life change
- Don’t have the tools/support system in place
- Too vague (lose weight (vs lose 3 lbs), spend less money (vs eat out less), get a better job (vs get a job doing “x”)
It’s never too late to make a change: If you find it too daunting or simply not achievable, it’s never too late to tweak your Resolution (or come up with one if you haven’t already)-you can still figure out how to make it do-able and, importantly, enjoyable. The new year is all about a clean slate.
If you’re still pondering a Resolution, try one of these approaches:
-Choose a type of Resolution:
-Emotional (be more patient)
-Physical (lose weight)
-Philosophical (volunteer more)
-Actual (finish your thesis)
