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List Your Goals
Now's the time to jot down your New Year goals. Think about what parts of your life you'd like to improve or change. Write down some broad goals, like better health, enhanced work skills, or more family time.
Then, pick 3-5 main goals to concentrate on – ones that will have the greatest positive impact or excite you the most. Focusing on a few key goals prevents feeling overwhelmed and lets you give your best where it counts.
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Crafting Effective New Year Resolutions
When you search for “new year resolutions” or “new year goals” online, you'll find a lot of suggestions. I conducted a small study and came up with the top 5 commitmen...
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Track Your Goals
Begin by writing your goals and displaying them where you'll see them daily, like on your fridge, beside your bed, or on a bathroom mirror. A helpful hint: move these reminders to a new spot each month. This prevents you from becoming too accustomed to seeing them in one place and keeps them top ...
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How to Set Goals for the New Year
A New Year's resolution is a commitment you make to yourself at the start of the year, either to begin a positive habit or end a negative one. For these resolutions to be successful, they need to truly matter to you.
Let's explore how we can set and accomplish these New Year goals.
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Positive Mindset
Before you start setting your goals, get into a positive mindset. The way you feel plays an important role in how well you'll achieve your goals, just like the name you give to a boat influences how it sails. To set goals effectively, spend a bit of time looking back on the past year. This can be...
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Be Specific
Make your New Year's goals specific by using the SMART method. Ask yourself:
- What do I want to achieve?
- How will I track my progress?
- How can I make this goal realistic?
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Setting New Year goals is like making a promise to yourself to do better things in the new year. Make it easy to set these goals and reach them.
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Concentrate Your Energy
- Take breaks: instead of trying to get rid of distractions, you should concentrate the energy you put into them during set breaks.
- Schedule tight deadlines: pick your most important tasks, the ones that require deep work, and then you schedule them in a shorter time span...
Pick Your Quitting Point
- Set shorter lengths of projects: set projects that are short enough that committing to them all the way is easy enough to do or break into chunks th bigger ones.
- Set re-evaluation points for ongoing habits and goals.
- Based on impact to other areas of your lif...
Visualize your best possible self
Studies show that imagining your ideal future can increase your levels of optimism. Focusing on your dreams coming true turn your focus away from worrying about the worst possible outcome.
Imagine your ideal life in 10 years - what it would look like and how you would feel. Spend ...
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