Yesterday we talked about My Steps to Make a New Year's Resolution, and today, I want to share you what I learned to keep our new year’s resolution and achieve our goals.

About half of all American adults (48%, according to a Marist poll taken in December) say they are at least somewhat likely to make a New Year's resolution, such as to lose weight, to get out of debt, or to find a better job. However a recent research shows that although they were confident of success with their goals, only 12% of them actually achieved their goals. Chances are, at some time in your life, you've made a New Year's Resolution -- and then broken it.

The following tips are what I learned from people who have successfully kept their new year’s resolution and achieved their goals.

1. set a realistic goal. Targeting a goal that's more attainable will help you keep motivated so that you have better chance to succeed. Also take small steps that are likely to be met with success toward those goals. If you make 4,000 dollars per month, don’t try to save $2000 at one time, Instead, try saving 400 dollars every month.

2. Write your resolution and your goals down. Write down your resolutions so that they become more official. Besides, a resolution is not something you make on Jan 1st, it is something you make every single day of your life. Your need to your goals in your agenda and review them every morning.

3. Keep Positive attitude to your goals. Being negative will just give you negative results. So put your mind into positive thinking mode only. This will help get you motivated, and even be excited for the adventure on getting to your New Year’s resolution.

4. Tell you resolution to your family and friends. People succeed 10% more when they made their goals public and got support from their friends. So don't keep your resolution a secret. Tell your family members and friends.

5. Give yourself a prize or a gift whenever you achieve one of your small goals. Research shows that in the long term, the pleasure of victory is a better incentive than the agony of defeat. If all you do is punish yourself for failure, you won't stay motivated to change for very long. Instead, rewarding yourself for your small success leads to bigger new success.

Leave a comment below to share your New Year's Resolution if you like.