So you’ve fully recovered from any New Year celebrations, gone back to work and started to get used to writing a different year. How are the New Years resolutions going? Is what seemed much easier at the turn of the New Year beginning to seem not as easy? This article invites you to play with just some of the many tips and questions to make any goals you set yourself easier to achieve than they have been in the past.
New beginnings; be it the start of a calendar or academic year, a birthday, a new job or a new family, often is a time when people review where they are and what they want to be different. Here are just some of the many tips and questions to make any goals you set yourself easier to achieve than they have been in the past.
I know that many resolutions are given up on very early after the first stumble, and there is a Japanese proverb - fall down seven times, stand up eight times, which applies here. Remember that you set yourself an end goal, it doesn’t matter how many times you have slipped or fallen it’s whether you get up and carry on that will determine if you get there in the end or not. One of the things I ask pretty much all my coaching clients is what they think is their greatest achievement so far, many of them list things that although were challenging at the time, they completed them and are now very proud of that success. So, even if you have slipped once or twice you can still get up and keep going.
To help you along the way here are 8 questions to make that journey easier and more fun.
I invite you to take as long as you want to answer the following questions:
For example, what you may want from stopping smoking is to be able to climb the flights of stairs without getting out of breath. If you want to lose weight, maybe you want to be able to walk without your thighs rubbing together, maybe (with full acknowledgement to the TV show) you want to look good naked.
Having answered those questions here’s some other thoughts to help you on the way to achieving those new years resolutions.
Research carried out by the American Society for Training and Development concluded that the likelihood of achieving a goal were effected by the following actions:
If you