After the New Year’s Resolution Reset. . . . . 6 Secrets to Success

Greetings Everyone,

In last week’s blog post I focused on the FREEDOM to reset if you have fallen by the wayside with your New Year’s Resolutions.  Hitting the reset button allows you to continue on the path to keeping your resolutions or achieving your goals for the year vs saying, “Oh well, didn’t keep that one.”

It’s important for me to point out that statistics show that out of all the people that make a New Year’s resolution, only about 8 percent of them are achieved. Truth be told, 43 percent of those who make those resolutions never make it past January. In addition to that, 80 percent never make it until summer.

Even if you fell off the wagon and have now decided to hit the reset button, you will need specific action steps to stick to your New Year’s resolutions or to achieve your goals. Simply stated, beginning again won’t get you past the challenges of sticking to your resolutions or working toward your goals. Here are a few specific steps to help you achieve success:

1. Define Your Resolutions/Goals 

The first and most important step in achieving your resolutions is by defining what you are trying to achieve. You will need to clearly define what it is you want to happen.

2. Evaluate Your Resolutions/Goals 

Once you have defined your resolutions, the next thing is to evaluate the resolutions. This means to clearly look into the goals and find out if they are realistic and something that you are able to achieve.

For example, you cannot have “being rich” as a resolution if you do not even have a job. Your goals should be guided by goal setting principles, where your resolution/goal is:

Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely.

These principles should guide you in coming up with goals you can achieve.

3. Categorize Your Resolutions/Goals 

 To make it easier to come up with achievable resolutions or goals, you should categorize them into distinct categories. Some categories might include family, career, finances, health, faith, and personal improvement.

4. Write Your Resolutions/Goals 

Write down your resolutions in order to remember each and every one of them. We have gotten away from writing and have moved to digital records for many items. Writing anything down helps keep it into your mind.

5. Have a Plan

Once you have defined, evaluated, and written down your resolutions, the next step is to have a plan. A plan in this case means setting up actionable tasks that you will do each and every day to move closer to keeping your resolutions or achieving your goals. Your plan will be one of your most important strategies.

Your plan should include the steps and strategies that will guide you into attaining your resolutions. For example, if your resolution is to become healthier, this is a very broad goal or resolution which can mean different things for different people.

You will need to be more specific in order to reach your goal. Becoming healthier, might include losing weight.  To make your resolution or goal more achievable you might say, I’m going to lose 10 lbs., by June 1^st 2021.

Next you can implement the following actions to ensure that you achieve your ultimate goal:

• Walk briskly for 30–45 minutes daily.
• Reduce your daily calorie intake to at least 2,000 calories each day and eat a minimum of 30 grams of carbohydrates per day. 
• Drink a smoothie for breakfast every morning.

The example above is measurable and trackable. To add a little fun to it, you can include a daily challenge of your performance. This will allow you to know whether you are progressing, regressing, or staying in the same position.

You can download my free Bountiful Living Goal Planning Sheet to help you define your goal, build an actionable plan, and keep your goals in front of you.

6. Keep Your Vision in Front of You

When making resolutions, most people make them in their heads, and few actually take their time to write them down, and if they do, it’s simply jotted down somewhere. Unfortunately, the few that do write down their goals only do this once a year.

If you want to meet your resolutions or goals, make sure you write them out once daily. If this sounds like too much, at least write them once a week. Doing this will ensure that you stick to you plan and ensure that what you want to achieve remains in front of you and a real action to take daily in your life.

The best way to ensure that you remain focused on achieving your goals is by writing the resolutions on a sheet of paper. Not writing your goals down where they are visible could result in you straying from the right path. Keep the paper or the journal where you can easily see it no matter the time of day. This will always remind you of the things you need to do.

Very few people achieve their New Year’s resolution. Most of them lose focus and drop out along the way. However, setting and achieving such goals are important elements in your life. It gives you a feeling of pride and motivation to do more.

So, if you have hit the RESET  button on your resolutions and goals, get yourself back in line and work towards achieving your goals for the year. You can do it!!

“You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.”

~Les Brown~

 “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

~Tony Robbins~

Your Future Pilot to Transformation,

BA Design ~ MA Ed ~ Certified Life Coach ~ Workshop Facilitator