How to Keep Your New Years Resolutions
December 31st, 2007Have you ever considered how to keep your new years resolutions? I would say many people have pondered this since it seems many or perhaps most new years resolutions never come to fruition for most people. As I have become older and hopefully a little wiser, I always like to set goals for myself that I think I will be able to achieve. Let’s face it, are you doing yourself a favor by setting a goal that you do not believe you will achieve? If you do not have a concrete plan or a history of achieving goals you set for yourself, you will be unlikely to keep your new years resolutions.
There is also another monumental decision you must make to achieve a new years resolution that I believe is even more important than setting a goal and planning a strategy to achieve that goal. This mammoth decision is to actually want what you plan to achieve. That is correct, you have to really want it if you are ever going to get it. It might appear obvious that you will want to achieve your goal but do you really, really want it?
Two people I know have recently decided to give up smoking cigarettes. One of them stopped smoking a few weeks ago without using any type of products commonly used to help smokers quit smoking. He made the decision to quit smoking and simply stuck by his decision and now a few weeks later, he no longer has any cravings for a cigarette. He began coughing quit heavily in the mornings when he first stopped smoking but now he is feeling better and it has been less than a month since he had his last cigarette. He had been smoking a packet of cigarettes every day for the last 15 years.
The other person I know tried to quit a couple months ago but has been struggling to quit smoking. He has tried a number of different products to help him quit smoking but he tells me that none of them work for him. He has not been able to go any longer than 48 hours without a cigarette. I asked him if he really wants to quit smoking and he said of course he wants to quit but quitting is just too hard. I asked him is he still likes smoking and he said that he likes smoking because it calms him down when he feels stressed. I then asked him what are all the reasons why he wants to quit smoking and he only had two reasons why. He said for health reasons and because smoking is a waste of money.
The first guy gave me a list of reasons as long as your arm why he wanted to quit and then told me that quitting smoking was so much easier than he anticipated it would be because he really wanted to quit. The second guy came up with only two reasons why he wanted to quit but admitted he still liked smoking. Do you see where I am coming from? If you want it, you will get it.
Whether you are trying to quit smoking, stop drinking, lose weight, meet a new partner, find a great job or achieve any new goal, you simply need to really want it. You need to want it so badly that you will do what ever it takes to get what you want. The same thing goes when you are contemplating how to keep your new years resolutions. You need to set new years resolutions that you want so badly that you will pull in every available resource to achieve. If you are not prepared to do what it takes, there is no point setting a new years resolution in the first place since the process will only cause you unnecessary anguish. However, if you really, really want something, you will get what you want with persistence and discipline.
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