5 Simple Tips to Improve Your Follow-Through on Your New Year’s Resolution
By the time we reach a certain age, we understand the real point behind our New Year’s resolutions. It’s admirable to make real efforts to improve yourself. Yet, for many, making it past February 1st with your resolution intact just doesn’t happen.
What can you do to ensure you follow through with your New Year’s resolution and ultimately achieve the results you seek?
Consider these suggestions:
1. Is your resolution realistic, specific and achievable? What about your strategy for achieving it? For example, if making a certain amount of money is your goal for the year, it may not be realistic for you as an entrepreneur to plan on making $200,000 in 2022 if the most you have made before in a year is $50,0000.
However, what if your resolution was something like, “Average 12 potential client meetings per month” or “Have 25% of my present clients rehire me”, “Do 5 Podcast Interviews in 2022 which demonstrate my expertise” These goals, as you can see, are more realistic, very specific in their plan and frankly, more do-able than simply saying, “Make $15,000 a month” or “Triple the number of clients I have now.”
If your resolution or method of achieving it isn’t realistic, change it today for better success.
2. Think about ways to keep your resolution in mind. Write down your resolution in your journal, jot it on a note, and place it on your refrigerator. Record it in your calendar. You can even keep your resolution written down on a paper on the front seat of your car. When your resolution is in your thoughts every day, you’re more likely to follow through with it.
3. Ask your spouse or friends to bring up your goal frequently. After all, people close to you want you to be successful in your goals. It can be as non-threatening as, “So, how are you doing on working toward your New Year’s resolution today?”
Discuss your struggles, plans and daily successes with people who love you. There’s no way you can just forget about your New Year’s resolution when you discuss it often with those who matter.
4. Start on your resolution early each day. Set up a resolution so you can do something related to the goal first thing in the morning. Since most people are at their freshest and most energetic in the morning, it’s good to be able to achieve something related to your resolution right after you get out of bed.
If your resolution has something to do with your marketing, doing your marketing work in the morning before jumping into client work will get your day off to a great start.
Resolutions to delve more into your subject of expertise or to learn a new skill can be achieved by studying for a half-hour first thing in the morning.
In the event you’ve resolved to get more exercise, getting in 20 or 30 minutes of exercise would be a great start to your day and respect your resolution.
Plan to take a step toward your resolution in the mornings. This way, you’ll start the day off with your resolution in mind and feel positive and successful all day.
5. Be flexible about your New Year’s resolution. Give yourself permission to tweak your resolution as time goes by. Maybe you’re unable to get 12 client interviews in January. Don’t beat yourself up if you only get 6. Acknowledge the progress that you have made and keep looking for ways to improve. Be determined to keep moving forward.
Allow yourself to make desired changes related to your resolution gradually. The more flexible you are, the more likely you’ll achieve your resolution sometime during the year.
Staying with your New Year’s resolution as long as it takes to be successful is possible. Just apply the above strategies: make it realistic and specific, keep your resolution in mind, ask friends and family to talk to you about your goal, start first thing in the morning, and be flexible about your resolution to achieve your goal.
Stick to your New Year’s resolution to experience one of your most inspiring years ever!
Joe Mitchell, Esquire is a High Performance Coach and EFT (Tapping) Practitioner, who has logged over 35 years of in depth study of personal and spiritual development. In his studies , he has done hundreds of self-development courses, spiritual retreats and health-related workshops. Coach Joe is a certified yoga teacher, meditation teacher, NLP Practitioner and a graduate of three coaching academies. Two years after he graduated from Harvard Law School, he became a monk for five years. In 2016, after over 20 years as a solo criminal and personal injury attorney, he decided to turn his heart’s passion into a career as a Success Coach, Motivational Speaker and Trainer. For information on Coach Joe’s programs, high performance videos and apply for a Free High Performance Session click the following link:http://www.activateyourgreatness.com/free-session.