The One Step To Take To Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions
January 2nd, 2013
Registered Psychologist
One reason is because many people don’t track their progress.
You’ve probably thought long and hard about your new year’s resolutions. You may have even written them down, and that’s a great start.
But it’s not enough.
In order to maximize your chances of fulfilling your new year’s resolutions, you need to track your progress. This means measuring and tracking your efforts. Take the time to map out the efforts, steps, and actions you take along your journey, including the things that are hindering your progress. Write them down regularly.
In order to make tracking and measuring your efforts a regular part of your journey to fulfilling your new year’s resolutions, ask yourself these three questions on a weekly basis:
1)What have I tried this week to maximize my chances* of achieving my new year’s resolution?
2)What have I tried that isn’t working and, as a result, decreasing my chances of achieving my new year’s resolution?
3)What are the lessons I’m learning as I work towards fulfilling my new year’s resolution?
Be creative in your measurement efforts. It’s not all about numbers. And it’s not about whether you’ve fulfilled the final outcome of your new year’s resolutions. The lessons and insights you learn about yourself during this process are invaluable.
Happy New Year and happy tracking!
*An excellent resource for goal-setting is Allison Foskett’s book, “How Smart Women Achieve Big Goals – Motivation to Focus and Follow Through with your Life Dreams.” Allison developed a solid approach to goal-setting by reviewing the research on how people actually succeed in achieving their goals.
