Make your resolve stick (From York Press)

Make your resolve stick

9:36am Wednesday 13th January 2010

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DID you make New Year resolutions regarding work, or indeed any aspect of your life? How are you doing?

If you are like 78 per cent of the population, you will be feeling like a miserable (or happy!) failure by now, or well on the way to it. The majority of resolutions just don’t see the successful light of February.

It’s not too late to make your resolve stick, though. There’s a simple five-stage strategy that will get you powering through to your heart’s desire and here it is:

1. Understand the real issue. Do you really want to give up smoking or do you feel guilty because a loved one is nagging you? Don’t mistake external motivation for heart’s desire. What do YOU really want?

2. Focus on a positive outcome. If you think about “giving up” anything you’ll obsess about that thing. Instead, picture yourself with all the benefits of how you want to look and feel when you have achieved your goal.

3. Plan! If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail. Simple as that.

4. Get support. And only from those who will cheer you on, not hector you or pounce on any little transgression.

5. Be flexible. Yo u may find that in your journey towards a new you, or at least a new aspect of you, there are even better goodies to be discovered. So keep an open mind. Success doesn’t always the look the way you imagine it.

Above all else, enjoy the ride. Very few glorious end results are worth abject misery in the progress of achieving them. You’ll make your resolve stick best by relishing the path you take to get to your goal.

As it’s my birthday today and I’m feeling generous, here’s a gift for you.

I’ll help you tailor this 5 strategy to your goal. Just contact me before the end of January for your free, no obligation phone Goal Setting session.

Happy and successful resolutions to you all.

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