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Get Ready It’s New Year’s Resolution Time
By TWilson | December 24, 2007
Today is Christmas Eve tomorrow the anticipated day of celebration and the opening of gifts by millions of children around the world. Coupled with the opening of gifts, will be family gatherings the aroma of one’s favorite foods fills the house and there is a sumptuous feast waiting for everyone at an impeccably set dinning table. Everyone sits down, and rise their glasses in good cheer and then it hits you, the dreaded New Year’s Resolution. In less than six days, the year will be here and with it brings about dreaded thoughts about making resolutions that are short lived.
Many of us have good intentions and make an honest effort to live up to the resolutions but find it difficult to follow through. Let me suggest reason why resolutions don’t work. The very nature of a resolution is in its name, it’s a resolution, something that you resolve to do, not something that has any outcome if you do or don’t. There is nothing there that you can measure if you achieved the resolution or not. Let’s take the most common of resolutions, I resolve in 2008 to lose weight. Great sentiment, but how much weight do you plan to lose, and by when do you plan to lose it.
Okay, okay, maybe I’m getting too deep in to this resolution vs. goal mantra, but my point is why make a resolution on something you want to change and not define what and how you want to change it? We all have an expectation that New Year’s Resolutions will be broken or forgotten. What a great opportunity to set some specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time bound goals instead of simplistic resolutions we have little or no intention of fulfilling. Alan Weiss says, “If you improve one percent a day in seventy days you’ll be twice as good.” Setting goals will put us on the path of getting that one percent a day improvement.
So in six days when you’re out ready to ring in the New Year, instead of making resolutions, set some goals for yourself. It’s the S.M.A.R.T. thing to do.
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