How To Set Goals For Great Success
We all have the best of intentions when it comes to setting new resolutions, but often the reason these resolutions don’t stick is because we’re trying to change a habit overnight. For sustainable, realistic changes, these habits should be overcome gradually and consistently.
First establish your goals, for example, becoming physically active, eating more healthfully, dealing better with stress etc. Don’t set these goals because someone else says you should. Your goals should be yours alone and in setting them, not only will you buy into them, but you’ll also be fully accountable for their achievement.
How About These New Year Resolutions?
Ever think about those New Year’s resolutions you set yourself and which you struggled to stick to and eventually gave up? It probably left you with a sense of failure, or perhaps the suggestion that the goals were a little unrealistic or un-achievable.
A habit, they say, takes a good 30 days to change, so trying to achieve more than one small change at a time can be a mighty difficult thing.
Why not do things differently this year? Since you need approximately a month to develop a new habit, how about setting yourself 12 new health-enhancing habits – one for each month?
This way, you can be sure to incorporate each and every change to the point that you no longer need to give them any real conscious consideration.