Making Your New Year's Resolutions Stick
January 01, 2007 - Categories:
Self Improvement
Are your resolutions for this year
more or less the same as those you had last year?
Or perhaps you had no special goals for 2006? If so, then you may wish to consider your goal getting strategies!
As I review my own progress for the year, I had four major goals I wanted to achieve for 2006. Now that 2006 is over, I’m happy to report that I achieved three out of the four. Even though I didn’t achieve everything on my list, it’s still a good thing because I set the goals high and still laid some groundwork to achieve my fourth goal sometime in 2007.
I believe it was Jack Caanfield, author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books who said he didn’t complain about making $90,000 when his goal was $100,000… especially since he had made only $10,000 the year before. A nine-fold increase is not too shabby!
Or perhaps you had no special goals for 2006? If so, then you may wish to consider your goal getting strategies!
As I review my own progress for the year, I had four major goals I wanted to achieve for 2006. Now that 2006 is over, I’m happy to report that I achieved three out of the four. Even though I didn’t achieve everything on my list, it’s still a good thing because I set the goals high and still laid some groundwork to achieve my fourth goal sometime in 2007.
I believe it was Jack Caanfield, author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books who said he didn’t complain about making $90,000 when his goal was $100,000… especially since he had made only $10,000 the year before. A nine-fold increase is not too shabby!
The first step in successful goal setting is to give yourself some targets. What kind of symbols can you create in your mind to represent the things you want to achieve? If you can focus your mind on what you wish to manifest, with consistency, the universe will respond to your intention by letting it manifest at the perfect time in the perfect way. This is a core principal of the book/movieThe Secret that seems to be taking the world by storm. By the way, the actual manifestation of what you hold in mind will probably be in a way completely different than you would expect, but it will be profoundly better.
So think about what you would like to achieve this year in terms of your business, investments, relationships, health, and spiritual pursuits. Your goals must be measurable so that you will know when they have been achieved. If the goals you pick are good, you’ll feel excited to think about what it will be like to experience these achievements. On the same note, you should make your goals challenging enough that it scares you a bit. Remember, if you only ask for little, that’s probably all you’ll get. The universe has unlimited abundance, so plan your life accordingly.
Then the steps to follow are simple….
1) Put your goals in writing.
2) Post them where you will see them every day.
3) Spend 5-10 minutes daily visualizing or imagining your goals as if they were already true.
Step three is basic self-hypnosis. All gold medal Olympic athletes do it, and you may wish to consider it as well.
All great things begin with an idea. What you hold in mind tends to manifest based on the power of your consistent intention coupled with the right conditions. So get to it! ☺