Steps on How to Keep to Your New Year’s Resolutions

5 Steps Towards Your New Year’s Resolutions

It is that time of year! A brand new spankin’ year! Perfect to great goals, start achieving dreams, and more.

BUT, how often do you find “Resolution burn out” by February or March? And every year you promise yourself it won’t happen again? This year is the year you will fulfill your goals?

I want THIS year to be THIS year!

 Of course, it won’t be easy – if it was easy, everyone will do it! But with these helpful steps and a persistent mindset, you will be able to keep to your New Year’s resolutions!

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Pick One Major (and Specific) Goal with Measurable Results

One of the biggest New Year’s resolutions is “lose weight.” This goal is admirable and has a lot of health benefits – physical and mental! It is amazing what a walk around the block will do for your productivity!

BUT, what measurable result will come from “lose weight?”

Is 5 pounds enough? 10 pounds? 1 pound? Then, how long do you have to reach this? Is loosing 5 pounds in a month your goal? Or 20 pounds in a year?

Rather than have a vague goal, make it specific with a timeline and then write it down – everywhere. 

Set Limited Amount of Goals

One way people get “resolution burn out” is because they have too many goals they want to work on.

Try to pick one or two this year – keeping them specific. As an added bonus, if the 2 goals are connected, it can help you keep on task.

For example:

“I want to lose 10 pounds in 6 months” and “I want to run a half-marathon after 6 months.”

While you are training for the half-marathon, you will, no doubt, lose the 10 pounds. And, the half-marathon gives you a pretty set deadline that you can’t miss.

Another example that is not exercise focus could be:

“I want to read a book a month” and “I want to join an organization to meet new people.”

The second goal isn’t quite so specific; however, you can join a BOOK CLUB and achieve your “book a month” goal as well as meeting new people.

Time Planning is Key

As I already mentioned, having deadlines or a timeline is essential. I have mentioned time planning numerous times throughout my blog articles and newsletter freebies. (If you haven’t signed up for free exclusive content – do so now!)

Take a sheet of paper – any scrap or notepad sheet – and write your specific goal on top.

Then, write when you would like to achieve this goal. Underneath that, create 10 (or however many) steps to achieve that goal.

For example, with my half-marathon example:

• I want to run a half-marathon after 6 months.
• I will start with 1 mile runs and every 2 weeks add another mile until reaching 13 miles (a little over the half).
• I will run every other day: date, date, date, etc.
• These are the dates (to be extra specific) and the mile count: Date – X, Date – X, etc.
• This is the name of the half-marathon I want to do: XYZ
• I need to sign up for the half on this date

Boom! Your to-do list is done!

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Set Time in Your Calendar

Once you have your list, I want you to go into your calendar (either paper or app) and schedule time in on those dates you listed.

I highly recommend color-coding your calendar and ensuring your activities are programmed as “busy” so no one can disturb you.