Tips for Making Resolutions!
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| Tue, 12-27-2005 - 8:25am |
When it comes to making resolutions do you make the same ones over and over again? Well here are some articles I found on making resolutions: (Note: I have only pasted snippets from the articles)
Tips and Ideas-
http://www.lessons4living.com/wmaz7.htm
A New Year is a new start and can be a good time to assess yourself. What would you like to change?
- Don’t be too ambitious. Don’t set yourself up to fail. Set goals that are reasonable and reachable.
- Look at a resolution as an opportunity to do something exciting and new and not as a task of drudgery.
- Tell others about the resolutions you are making. When we tell others what we plan it increases our motivation to do it.
Excuses or Choices-
http://frugalliving.about.com/cs/moneymatters/a/ucchoicedd.htm
Let's compare the terms "excuse" and "choice":
According to Webster, an excuse is "an explanation offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or for release from an obligation, promise, etc."
And a choice is, "the right, power, or opportunity to choose; option"
It's pretty obvious that there is a big difference in the two words yet I think many people confuse the two.
We all do have choices. When we realize that, we hopefully will stop making excuses and start making different choices that will help us get to where we want to go.
Making Resolutions Work-
http://frugalliving.about.com/cs/specialreading/a/123003.htm
You can make a resolution any time, but the new year looms ahead of us like a clean sheet of paper, upon which we have the power to write our successes ahead of time.
Instead of a list of dreams, make ONE decision for ONE main goal for the year. Don't bite off more than you can chew... that only makes daydreams, not resolutions. (But keep the next goal in mind for when you meet the first one!)
Be realistic!
Decide ahead of time whether you'll do better if you tell others or not. Different people feel differently about this, so know what works for you. If telling others makes you want to live up to their expectations, tell them. If it only stresses you, then keep it to yourself.
Ask yourself: "Do I want to be in the same situation at the end of December 2006, that I was in December 2005?" And answer it. Honestly. Then get up and go after it again. You'll find the results are very much worth the effort.

