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January 1, 2025
Have you started thinking about New Year’s resolutions? Have you, like many, failed you in previous resolutions? In this three-part prescription for setting resolutions for you (and helping your kids and grands do the same), let me share some time-honored tips for success. This is a reprint of Part One of this very popular three-part blog series I originally published in 2022.
For many of us, once a goal gets off track, getting back on is tough. Worse yet, some people beat themselves down with negative self-talk and that’s never a healthy option.
- Some say that 80–88% of people fail to keep their New Year’s resolutions within the first two weeks or by February.
- According to one study, only 9% of Americans who set New Year’s resolutions feel successful in keeping them by the end of the year
- Setting resolutions for tradition’s sake
- Expecting obstacles
- Not setting goals into smaller chunks
- Not setting up a way to be accountable for your goals
- Having unrealistic goals
- Not keeping track of progress
- Forgetting about resolutions
- Making too many resolutions
Now I’m not saying don’t make a resolution, but depending on your goals, the best first step could be to not to make a New Year’s resolution just yet.
You may increase your chance of winning by waiting for the right time to start and when you’re ready, here are a few tips for success.
- First, plan. Victories don’t come without a strategy, a solid game plan, and an accountability partner or two. Good intentions and willpower alone won’t cut it.
- Second, forget the quick fix. Lasting change requires long-term effort, so don’t fool yourself into thinking success will be instant.
- Finally, it’s important to realize resolutions aren’t for everyone. If you’re not genuinely ready to change, you’re setting yourself up to fail.
If you’re not sincere and motivated, then forget resolutions. But if you are ready, celebrate your successes, even little baby steps.
THE WHOLE SERIES
- Part 1 – How to finally have successful New Year’s Resolutions – Why do so many fail? (see above)
- Part 2 – How to finally have successful New Year’s Resolutions – How can you succeed this year? (posting on 01/02/25)
- Part 3 – How to finally have successful New Year’s Resolutions – How to help your kids and grands succeed? (posting on 01/03/25)
COMING SOON:
- Healthy nutrition resolutions for the New Year starting on this 12th day of Christmas (posting on 01/06/25)
- Making and keeping spiritual resolutions for 2025 and eternity (posting on 01/07/25)
I hope you and yours have a Christ-centered, warm-memory-creating, family-filled, healthy, and blessed New Year.
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