So, How Are Your Resolutions Going?

New Year's Resolutions often start out with a running start and begin to fizzle by the end of February. How are yours doing?

Goals, on the other hand, if written correctly, are revisited and attained! Keep reading for ideas on how to make sure your important vision gets attained!

Set Limits
National success coach, Brian Buffini, once noted that Americans significantly underestimate what they can do in a year and drastically overestimate what they can do in a week. Be realistic about what you can accomplish. As you create your goals, do not set expectations that they would all be accomplished at the same time. Every person, regardless of intelligence, age or education can only process a few changes at a time (if the changes are to be lasting.) Define no more than 5 major goals for the year.

How to Create a Great Goal
Make your goals vibrant - living - hold real meaning and you will attain them! A vibrant goal will help you retain focus on what you are trying to achieve as well as what it will take to get you there.

When you write your goal, make sure that it is "SMART"

Specific - detailed enough to know exactly what you should do.

Measurable - you will have a way to know you did or did not reach the goal.

Attainable - the goal is something that is reachable.

Realistic - can you really accomplish this task?

Time Limited - set a date

So, a not so "smart" goal would say something like, "Loose weight." A "smart" goal would say, "Loose 3 pounds a month for a total weight loss of 36 pounds in 2006."

Visualize
Work to imagine and then write out what it will look like when you succeed.

Know your "Why."
Understand why you want to attain the goal and what benefit you will have once successful.

Know the Cost of Attainment.
Understand the effort or cost to you in attaining the goal. What action steps will you need to take to accomplish your goal?

Know the Cost of Non-Attainment.
What are the consequences if you do not make your goals? What will happen if you are not successful?

Write it Out!
Studies have proven that goals that are written down are way more likely to succeed than those that are just thought about or verbalized.

To your success!

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