7 Tips for [Finally] Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions

It’s the New Year once again and you are planning your resolutions. It may seem daunting if you think about past failures, but this year WILL be different. Studies show that nearly 50 percent of people who make resolutions are successful. You can be one of them!

With a few helpful tips in place, you can go a long way to seeing your resolutions become a reality this year.

1. Write them down. When you write down your goals, you become more committed to making them a reality. Take a few minutes to write your resolutions in your JRNL. You might want to create a new JRNL where you can start with your goals and report on daily progress.
2. Don’t overdo it. With an overdose of enthusiasm, it’s easy to get carried away. Make sure that whatever you decide to do is achievable. And you should probably limit yourself to 3-5 resolutions for the year.
3. Break it up. It’s easy to give up when overwhelmed by the enormity of your resolution. By breaking it into bite-sized chunks, you will find it easier to accomplish your goals one step at a time.
4. Set a time. Once you’ve set smaller goals for yourself, the next step is to set time boundaries. Look over the whole year and have set times to complete each of your smaller goals. It will give you something to celebrate as you tick off each goal throughout the year.
5. Find tools. There are many apps and websites to help you accomplish your resolutions. Before you get started in the new year, do some research to find tools to help you accomplish your goals. By having these things ready to go, you won’t use them to procrastinate once you are ready to get started.
6. Don’t procrastinate. Procrastination is a resolution killer. Make a decision, before you start, to accomplish your goals in a timely manner. If you are a natural procrastinator, make an effort to finish goals early, that way you should finish them on time.
7. Don’t give up. One of the most important aspects of avoiding failure is to not give yourself the option of giving up. It’s natural to want to quit something you are doing over a long period of time, so make sure you don’t have that option. When you feel you want to give up, you can tell yourself you have no choice but to keep going.

With all of this in mind, you have a good head start to seeing your resolution completed this year.  Don’t let another year go by without making a fresh effort to see your dreams come true.

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