Monday, December 2, 2013

New Year's Resolutions III: make sure someone has your back!

Dear...

Before we continue our series on New Years Resolutions let's have a quick review of what we did so far.

I asked you to start writing down a draft of your (possible) New Year's Resolution(s) for 2014. I gave you two guiding principles:
- Make sure that it's your resolution and not someone else's
- Write it in a positive way, so avoid negative words
You can go back to my post of November 22 New Year's Resolution II: "the power of positive thinking", for your reference.

Today I'm adding two new guidelines.

- Make sure that your resolution meets your personal standards and common sense. As an example, if you want to loose weight do it in a healthy way and not in an unhealthy way. Another example, working overtime might create more income, but make sure that the extra money is worth giving up valuable family time.

- Create a support group for your goal. Make sure that you surrounding knows about your goal and that they are behind it. This creates accountability on your side and will help you through times when its hard to stay focussed on your goal. As an example: say you want to quit smoking, your surrounding can help you to stay away from tempting situations. Or you can ask them to reward you for each week you don't smoke... Of course you have to do something in return when you reached your goals.
In general, you are more likely to reach your goals if you get support from the people around you. So don't be shy to ask for their support and include them when you write your resolutions, you will find that they are very willing to give you the support you need.

Now please take a look at the draft you made before and make changes based on these new guidelines. I'll get back to you next week  for another step in creating a New Year's Resolutions and giving you the confidence that you can achieve them.

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