How To Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

HAPPY NEW YEAR❗️

It’s official, 2024 has opened its doors. The year of the rabbit or something like that I read 😆, but it’s really the year of what every year is.. 

The year of “whatever you want it to be” because you’re the one playing the cards, you have the control. Part of that control is moving yourself in a forward direction. 

In my earlier days I felt like having a New Year’s resolution was corny. I was too cool for that. 

Willingly rebelled, but to my older self.. 

I can’t think of something more relevant than deciding on a tangible change or addition to one’s life that propels them. Self-improvement is always on the “cool” side of things.

In this column you’ll find - tips for making your New Year’s resolutions part of your life!

SECTIONS:

• How To Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

  • 5 Ways To Keep New Year’s Resolutions

  • My New Year’s Resolutions

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How To Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

It’s that time of the year – time to submit your resolutions.

If you’re having trouble coming up with one a New Year’s resolution is simply the identification of a goal you want to achieve, new year goals. Maybe an alteration of a less than favorable trait or behavior you commonly display. Could even be to continue an aspect of life that has been fruitful, and so on.

You’re not limited to one either.

PLANS

That third week is always make or break

5 Ways To Keep New Year’s Resolutions

1. Use the goal as motivation – What are you in it for? What’s your incentive? What drove you in this direction in the first place? Keeping this within reach for easy access as a reminder can reinvigorate you when you seem to lose your way a bit. Always remember your WHY!!!

2. Make a plan - What’s the blueprint for success? What steps shall you take on a daily and/or periodic basis to breed desired results? When you create a plan giving you specific objectives that boost you to a particular endgame, it not only helps you succeed.. you feel like you’re doing something along the way. Otherwise it’s harder to gauge when you are and aren’t putting in sufficient work. PLAN to succeed!!!

3. Create a timeline – Your timeline is to be realistic, one that’s achievable within the parameters. Yet your timeline shouldn’t be limiting, don’t hold yourself back. When can you expect to see this resolution in action? How long until results are noticeable? What are realistic deadlines for you to meet? What frequency are you to marry yourself to?

4. Evaluate your performance - How’d you do following the blueprint this past week, month, or quarter? Is the blueprint proving to be the right on? Should you make tweaks - what part helped and what part was useless? Evaluation is a must. How else can you tell what to continue doing and what to reshape. Make a move, reflect, make a move, reflect.. eventually you work all of the kinks out and become a well-oiled, efficient machine. Geared for success. Reflect!!!

5. Okay you messed up, so? – Mistakes are part of regularly scheduled programming. Get back on that horse, giddy-up. Expect mishaps!!! If they don’t happen outstanding, but it’s an expectation. Keep getting back on course and they’ll happen less and less. The error frequency will always lower, for anything you do with repetition you’ll continue to improve at.

Note: Applying self pressure helps me, maybe you too. If I need to light a “get moving” fire I’ll put what I want to do out in the world somehow. I don’t like saying I’ll do something and not do it, so if I add that social pressure of wanting to be a man of my word it helps my motive.

Another note: Can’t express enough how beneficial specifics are. Good new year’s resolutions get into a bit of detail. Too vague of a resolution makes it tougher to adhere to and gives you less of a map to follow. IE “be happy” - that’s not a resolution, but “write something positive that happens each day” is a more specific way to assist in you heading in the happy direction.

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My New Year’s Resolutions

I have 2 major resolutions this year:

More family time. More writing.

To make it specific, at least 2 days per week I’ll finish work by 6 pm.

On the writing front, at least 12 blogs up this year. That’s a monthly average, so if I miss a month I have to make it up. In the past I blogged daily, then it dropped to weekly, then I missed a whole year🤦🏾‍♂️.

Business became a little hectic, but I’m back and those are my specific resolutions.

Before we get to the quotes, I posted a caption across socials a while back, notwithstanding it feels like a good theme to refer to throughout the year:

Be patient, not complacent.

Be ferociously consistent, yet void of monotony.

Be increasingly efficient, without kneeling to a fear of error.

Be reflective.. in the absence of dwelling on prior blunders.

Results may vary, but if you’re procedurally intact the odds will ever be in your favor.

Without further delay here are your 100 short inspirational quotes – keep putting those muscles to use and BE GREAT❗️

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