Tue, 01/12/2010 - 14:40 — David Wei
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.
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get your site a DoFollow link by leaving you comments below:I totally agree. I wrote a
I totally agree. I wrote a similar blog on my site about people keeping resolutions. I believe most people don't keep their resolutions because they know what the finished product of their resolution but they don't have any clue on how to make a realistic plan to get there. I have probably fallen into this trap in the past as well... But this is the year of the blogger... I am going to achieve my goals...
Great blog
James, thank you very much
James, thank you very much for your kindly feedback. I hope this post could help you anyway. What are your goals as a blogger in 2010?
Awesome blog!!!
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New Year’s Resolution
Sticking to new resolution is very difficult. We have to make up our mind and must be strong in our decision. New Year's resolutions can be both troublesome and rewarding. Many people make them, but few make a real committment to them.
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Good resolutions. I am also taking to keep this resolutions from today.
Great new year resolutions!
Really awesome new year resolution! I am totally interested to follow it for becoming success.My new year resolution was to totally focus on my job and have great success.I am trying to do this because if we labor hard then only it will work for us.Always be energetic and willing to do.Lots of thanks for sharing.
New Year’s Resolution
My new year resolution is to stop drinking and smoking.
We always make New Year's
We always make New Year's Resolution in excitement and out of our impulse but when it comes to keeping up with them most of us fail. I mean just after a month or two, people even forget what goals they had set.
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