5 Tips for Sticking to Your New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s resolutions can be a great way to set goals and make positive changes in our lives. However, it can be challenging to stick to our resolutions.
Here are 5 tips to help you stay on track:
Set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals
Setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) objectives is a good way to plan the steps to meet the long-term goals of your grant. It helps you take your grant from ideas to action.
This will help you focus your efforts and make it easier to track your progress.
Have a plan
Break your goals down into smaller steps and create a plan for how you will achieve them.
Life plans allow us to put our dreams and goals on paper rather than just in our heads.
When we see our dreams and goals listed in a life plan, they can serve as important reminders of our purpose and why we do the work we do.
This may also enable us to make decisions that are in tune with our dreams
Track your progress
Keep a record of your progress, whether that means writing down your goals, using a tracking app, or checking in with a friend or coach.
Measuring your progress is important because it allows you to see how far you’ve come and how close you are to reaching your goal.
This can be a great motivator to keep going. When you track your goals, you can also measure your progress in terms of the steps you have taken so far and the progress you have made
Stay motivated
Find ways to stay motivated, such as by finding a support group or setting rewards for yourself as you reach milestones.
Motivation is important because it: provides you with goals to work towards, helps you solve problems, and helps you change old habits.
Don’t be too hard on yourself
It’s okay to have setbacks or make mistakes. Remember that it takes time and effort to make lasting changes, and it’s important to be kind to yourself along the way.
Being hard on yourself can ruin your mood, focus, and productivity if you let it. Luckily, shame and humiliation two emotions that are common with self-criticism are shown to only last between 30 to 50 minutes.