Achieving Your New Years Resolutions

As time passes and the year continues I just wanted to touch back in with you all and see how you were doing with your new year's resolutions. Earlier this week I was on a webinar with GVO Live Academy and the instructor for that webinar was going over his '10 Action Steps to Achieving Your New Years Resolutions' and I decided to take notes and share them with you today. Remember that this year is your year and if something great is going to happen in your life this year, you have to be responsible for making it happen.

10 Action Steps to Achieving Your New Year's Resolutions

1. Setup Expectations - "Be realistic and make sure your goal is attainable."

Setting realistic expectations for ourselves help give us a reachable goal in which to work towards. It is important to have a good idea where we are going if we ever intend on getting there and this is just one of the avenues we have to go down.

2. Focus on "WHY?" - "List Pro's and Con's.. List benefits.. visualise your success daily... if not hourly."

Our "WHY?" is very important. It is the underlying reason for exactly why we are doing what we are doing. Without a cause for accomplishing our goals we wont have anything to push us or keep us going; we would simply be doing what we are doing just to get by--just to survive. If you are only trying to survive then you can stop reading here because I am trying to do way more than just that. I am trying to truly live and live life to the fullest while teaching others how to do the same. Our "WHY?" is essentially our purpose and if we expect to achieve our goals we must be working with a purpose in mind.

3. Plan ahead - "All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go." - Norman Vincent Peale

If we are trying to go somewhere we need to have a plan; we need to have a goal in mind. In order to get something done we must have a plan, we must be strategic and then we can take action. But if we intend on being successful, before we take action we must plan ahead.

We should expect to deal with temptation and having to fight against it in order to not be distracted. We need to decide how we are going to deal with that temptation before it happens so that we can handle it with ease when the time comes.

4. Seek Support and Accountability - "Don't try to do it alone. Meet with people in person or online. Find a "running partner" so to speak."

We are not alone in this world. Majority of the time when we go through issues or try to change and better ourselves it is likely that somebody else is having a similar battle. We need to seek out people who are on similar paths as we are and be accountable for each other with our goals. Don't be afraid to lean on somebody else when your burdens start piling up; and when you are doing well, offer others your shoulder to lean on.

5. Guard Your Mind - "Your thoughts are going to lead to actions. It is your choice if you focus on items that lead to success."

I remember the day my father had the "Guard Your Mind" conversation with me. I was relatively young, I believe I was just over double digits, and my dad was driving while telling me a story about a man he knew that had lost millions of dollars because his accountant robbed him blind. The moral of the story was the fact that millions of dollars can come and go; somebody can take a man's money but nobody can ever take your education. When I was young I thought he was just referring to formal education, but I grew to understand that he really just meant nobody could take what is in my mind. Once it is there, it is mine.

Your thoughts are very important. Everything in your understanding is based on your thoughts or your outlook of the world. Your thoughts control your perceptions, interpretations, and perspectives. You can choose what thoughts dominate your mind; thoughts that will lead to actions and actions that will yield results. But the choice is ultimately yours.

6. Find inspiration - "We all know what we need to do to achieve our goals, what it comes down to is being able to inspire ourselves to take action."

Inspiration plays a crucial role in most great feats. Great things are not done by accident; one has to be inspired to do something great. In other words stop wasting time carrying on with life, get passionate and be inspired to do bigger things.

7. Develop Persistence - "Experts say that it takes 21 days to create a new habit. It takes 6 months for that habit to become part of your personality (permanent mindset)."

Bad habits are a curse we have all been affected by, but we can find comfort in the fact that we can actually re-program ourselves. Based on what "experts" say, you can create new habits or change bad ones by toughing out 3 weeks of repetitive and consistent work towards your goal. In 6 months you will have re-programmed yourself and have new personality trait.

8. Reward Your Wins - "Always reinforce good actions. Forty percent of people achieve their resolution on the first attempt. "

There is a higher failure rate than success rate when trying to achieve new year's resolutions. Whenever we accomplish a win we should celebrate it. Whatever it is we are doing, we are doing it for the win. No one seeks to fail at a task they have set out to do, and I believe if we win then we must celebrate. Get accustomed to the feeling of celebration after winning and as you start to work for those celebrations you will start to win more.

9. Evaluate progress (good and bad) - "Repeat what is working and amend what did not work."

I almost think this pretty much speaks for itself but I will say this to reinforce the idea; if something is broken then you fix it but if it is not broken then keep using it.

10. Never give up - "If you run out of steam you can always start over. Seventeen Percent of the people that make resolutions finally succeed after more than six attempts."

I know that you must have heard the phrase "Quitters never win and winners never quit." This is the kind of attitude we need to have about trying to achieve the goals in your life you have set out to do. Achieving our new year's resolutions is just like achieving other goals we set in our lives. If you set out to do it and want to accomplish it then you can never quit. Determination and persistence will see you through. Remember that.

Understand the process below and utilise it to achieve all of your new year's resolutions and life goals.

Thoughts ==> Feelings ==> Actions ==> Results

*Actions are driven by emotions.

*Emotions are driven by thoughts.

*Both thoughts and emotions create our values and beliefs.

Remember that moving between feelings, emotions, and actions is choice. What you choose to think about and what you choose to do are some of the most important things to remember to focus on.

To Your Success,

--- Alexander Day

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