Make a New Year's Resolution to Change the Way You Make Resolutions

It’s almost that time of the year, again. People will be making plans for the arrival of the new year. Many will be planning parties, attending parties and just spending time with that special someone. But after the clock strikes twelve and that glorious ball has been dropped in Times Square, people will be making more plans, plans on how they are going to change their lives for the better.

We all go through this every year. Out with the old. In with the new. A time to better our lives and ourselves.

How-to books will be flying off the shelves. Exercise clubs will be adding more memberships. People will be buying vitamins, exercise gear from machinery to clothes, and not to mention every possible diet book on the market.

But what happens? Year after year. We make the lists, we make the promises, we set those goals and then what do we do? We usually fail.

Maybe it is time we take a different approach. Maybe it is time we make a resolution to change the way we make resolutions?

Sounds difficult? Sounds weird? Maybe it can even sound like a possible way to achieve what we want?

First, we should start making the lists. But don’t write resolutions at the top of the page in big, bold letters. Resolutions is a nice word. But it is also an intimidating word. Lets call it something more simple, like a list of wishes. We all like wishes.

Next we have to start wording our wishes differently. For example, what is most everybody’s biggest wish; to loose weight or to get into better shape. Don’t write down that you want to loose twenty pounds or exercise five times a week. That is a big wish. Bigger wishes are harder to attain.

Lets take that same wish and break it down into parts. It is more realistic to say you wish to loose three pounds by the end of the month. This is more attainable.