New Year’s Resolutions:Tips for Achieving Your Personal Goals for 2012
‘New is the year, new are the hopes and the aspirations, new is the resolution, new are the spirits and forever my warm wishes are for you. Have a promising and fulfilling new year’
This is it! 2012 is just around the corner. It’s that time of year again when we take a good look at our lives and decide what habits we want to break and what habits we want to make. Have you thought of your New Year Resolutions yet? Here are a few tips for setting goals and keeping them for the coming year.
1. Write down your goals and intentions: Be specific in what you want to achieve. Write it out on a piece of paper, or on your pc. This helps you to focus on your target and be clear in what you want to achieve. Those who write goals down are more likely to succeed than those who don’t. Set the intention that you are going to achieve your goal.
2. Be realistic: Don’t try to take on loads of tasks all at once. You’ll only overwhelm yourself and want to give up. So take baby steps. Make a list of things that you want to achieve in 2012. Read over it and see what the goals that are most important to you are. Start with those first. You can always tackle the rest at a later stage.
3. Visualise your goal: When you imagine your most important goal as already being achieved, you will feel good and you will be telling your subconscious mind exactly what you want. Spend time in the morning or evening visualising your aspirations as already being accomplished. When you are doing this really enjoy the feeling of success that comes from that.
4. Use Affirmations: One way to stay focused on your goal is to write it out and put it up on the wall where you can see it. Write it out as if it has already happened. This is an affirmation that you have already achieved what you set out to achieve. It tells your subconscious mind that you can do it and you have done it. Affirmations are a great way of helping to achieve your goals. Use affirmations like ‘I have a healthy body’, ‘All my changes are easy to make’, ‘I speak and think positively’. You can also use reminders on your phone for affirmations.
5. If you fall at the first hurdle don’t give up: We all fall down every now and then; the important thing is to get back up. Don’t go into the blame game and inflicting guilt on yourself. Acknowledge that you had a slip and then get right back up again. Give yourself some credit and be flexible.
6. Believe in yourself: Be positive! It’s important for you to believe in yourself and believe that you can do it. Using visualisations and affirmations will help you to have more self-belief.
7. Take action: Now that you have the tools go and take action! Get brainstorming and get writing. The more action you take, the faster and easier it will be for you to achieve your goals. Just by reading these words, you can become aware of all the steps you can take, right now. You can begin to move toward your dream life. It may seem hard at first, but as you keep going, the fog will clear and you will start to feel better and better.
And Remember: Stay positive, stay open and go with the flow! Good luck!
