| Every year, people around the world promise | | | | schedule an hour before or after work for yourself |
| themselves, next year will be different. They make | | | | to get a fitness regimen into your routine. If you're |
| commitments to improve their lives, end bad habits, | | | | resolutions include quitting smoking, buy nicotine |
| and generally be better people. From losing weight to | | | | patches, gum, or other tools to make it easier on |
| quitting smoking to spending more time with their | | | | yourself. In short, you want to equip yourself with |
| families, people resolve to make big changes at the | | | | whatever you'll need to achieve your goals and stick |
| end of each year, but more often than not find | | | | to your resolutions. |
| themselves slipping back into their old patterns come | | | | Finally, devise a reward and/or punishment system to |
| mid January. | | | | help you stay on track. Most anything will work (but |
| This year, if you have some big changes you'd like to | | | | be careful not to choose a reward that will impede |
| make in your life, get serious about making and | | | | your efforts, like, "Every day I work out, I can have |
| keeping your New Year's resolutions. First things first, | | | | a milkshake" rewards like that are counterproductive |
| you have to identify what resolutions you want to | | | | at best), so think of treats you enjoy, like a weekly |
| make, and why. Do you want to save more money? | | | | lunch out with friends, or a night out, and use it to |
| Or spend more time with your kids? Or stop getting | | | | reward yourself for sticking to and accomplishing |
| so stressed out about your job? Maybe you want to | | | | your goals. Set a reward schedule to keep track and |
| be a better listener overall, or perhaps to be less | | | | determine whether or not you've earned your |
| cynical, or maybe to be less of a pushover. | | | | reward. Continuing with the example of exercising |
| Regardless of what your goal(s) may be, identifying | | | | more as a resolution, let's say you set a goal of |
| them is the first step to successful resolution making. | | | | working out four times a week. Keep track on a |
| Once you've identified your goal(s), make an itemized | | | | calendar, and if you stick to the schedule for two |
| list, and include an explanation as to why you want | | | | weeks straight, reward yourself. This system can be |
| to end, begin, or modify these behaviors. Do they | | | | modified to fit almost any resolution(s) you set of |
| get in the way of your day? Are they causing your | | | | course, you have to be honest, or the system won't |
| health to deteriorate? Or maybe they just make you | | | | work. |
| feel bad? Identify what the core problem is and | | | | Regardless of what you resolve to change, improve, |
| explain it as clearly as possible, so when you're | | | | or modify about your life, this year, commit to |
| working on actually implementing the changes in your | | | | actually making it happen. |
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| out, make a plan to implement them in your life. If | | | | rates. |
| one of your goals is to exercise more, join a gym, or | | | | |