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It’s been said that by January 26, even the best intended New Year’s resolutions tend to go out the window as hectic daily schedules return following the holidays.
The good news is that only two weeks of 2012 are behind you, and you have fifty more to go. Fifty weeks to make changes that you committed to make when you made those resolutions a couple of weeks ago.
One of the big reasons that people don’t succeed with their New Year’s resolutions is that they are too broad, lofty, or hard to measure, and therefore, difficult to achieve. After all, we want to achieve big, impressive goals, right? Big, admirable goals sound so much more impressive than boring, mundane achievements that are barely noticeable to the rest of the world. However, lofty resolutions broken down into simple (and sometimes boring) chunks can be the key to success.
Look at your list of resolutions and examine how you can break them down into chunks. Is your resolution to “get healthy” or “get in shape”? That can mean a lot of things, so how do you know when you’ve succeeded? Breaking this goal down into simple chunks could translate to the following:
· Keep daily record of eating habits for one month
· Substitute evening snack for a small bowl of fruit
· Walk around the block five days a week for one month, and increase walks to half a mile five days a week starting in March
No matter what your resolution is, if you examine it and take it apart, you can see how to break it down into daily or weekly chunks. The more chunks you are able to create, the better opportunity you will have at reaching your goal.
