How To Achieve Your New Year Resolutions

I want to first congratulate all of us who made it successfully to 2013, congratulations because it wasn’t easy from the beginning to the end of 2012.

New Year usually come with new ideas, new hope, new dreams, new visions, new targets and new resolutions, so what are your New Year resolutions this 2013? I don’t know what they are, but I am pretty sure you have one- everyone does, including myself.

Making a New Year resolution is not just the problem, but sticking to them and ensuring you achieve all of them or at least most of them, is always the problem.

As a way of assisting you to stick to your 2013 New Year resolutions, I have put together this short guide to help you achieve most of your New Year resolutions, and it goes like this:

1.       Make sure you write them down: having your new year resolutions written down where you can always see them at least once every day is advisable if you truly want to stick to them and also achieve them

2.       Make your New Year’s resolution sizable and realistic: one of the reasons why most people end up not sticking to their New Year resolutions is the fact that their resolutions for the New Year are often too big and unrealistic. Having too many new year’s resolutions may end up distracting you, so make your resolution sizable and realistic

3.       Be ready to act: so many people make new year resolution but deep in their hearts, they are not ready to act on their resolution, so in order to ensure that you achieve your new year’s resolutions, be prepared to act on them from the first day of January

4.       Meditate on your past year’s life: some of your new year’s resolutions maybe to quit a particular lifestyle, habit, friendship, sports or behavior, so in order to achieve it, try and make out a quiet moment to meditate on your past life. Meditate on the negative and positive effects of your past year’s lifestyles; that lifestyle you lived in the previous year or years, did it pay you, did it profit your present life? If it did, then stick to it, and even improve on it, but if it didn’t, it’s time to let go by all means.

5.       Don’t tell too many people your New Year’s resolutions: telling everyone you know about the things you wish to do and not do in the New Year may end up working against your achieving those New Year’s resolutions, so be secretive about it, and keep most of it to yourself and probably few close family members or friends.

6.       Always carry out a check and balances: you have made a New Year resolution, okay, that’s fine, and the year has already moved on, now the question is, are you sticking to your new year’s resolutions? To know if you are or not, you need to always check and balance your actions, progress and failures to help you track your progress. You can do this monthly, bi-monthly, etc, but don’t make the range too large to ensure effective checkmating. For instance, let’s assume you had a new year’s resolution that you will publish a new book, by February, you should be able to know if you will publish the book or not via check and balancing method. At least, if at all you will publish the book, by February, you should have completed the book manuscript, and you should have started discussions on publishing with some publishers, and you ought to have at least %10 of the fund if you are self-publishing the book. And by April, the book publishing negotiations with a publisher ought to have be sealed and other book publishing processes like- proofreading, etc, started, that’s how to check and balance your new year’s resolutions progress.

7.       Have a mentor: having a mentor and a role model for the year will help inspire and direct you on what and what to do to achieve those your new year resolutions, so get a mentor if you don’t have one already, and ensure your mentor’s career, business, endeavor, etc, matches with your new year’s resolutions.

8.       Put them in prayer: In all these, you need to pray for favor and grace to overcome uncertainties of life. Remember, whether you are a Christian, Hindu, Muslim or Budha, you need to pray to God to give you the grace and mercy to achieve your new year’s resolutions. Remember, the physical things we see are controlled by the spiritual things we cannot see, so to ensure that you achieve the physical things, you have to align with the spiritual to help you transform spiritual things into the physical rem, enough said.

I wish you all a happy, prosperous 2013! And do follow this blog this New Year for more inspirational guides. Stay blessed all the time.

From- Nwiro Ngozika