Tips on Creating New Years Resolutions and Keeping Them

By Elle Hoover

Do you find yourself year after year struggling to keep up with your goals from the year before? New Year’s resolutions have come to have a negative connotation and can leave us feeling less than fantastic if they aren’t met. Here are some tips and tricks to keeping your New Year’s resolution this coming season.

1. Make them realistic: Creating a goal that is unrealistic can result in unnecessary stress. Outline the resources needed for this goal and adjust expectations accordingly.

2. Set check-in dates: By creating check-ins this allows you to hold yourself accountable. Whether this be weekly, monthly, or quarterly this will help to track your progress and keep the goal front of mind.

3. Make it fun: When thinking of how you will achieve your goal add in fun rewards or surprises! Utilizing things such as a decorative calendar, incentivizing yourself with your favorite meal, or creating a group message/challenge with friends and family can add that much needed pick me up to keeping on track.

4. Be flexible!: Not all goals need hard and fast rules. Tracking your progress can help to give you an accurate forecast of how quickly you are reaching milestones. If finishing your goal seems to be getting farther and farther away you may just need to tweak it! “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

Edison

5. Don’t fret: Didn’t meet your goals during the year? Don’t be afraid to go round two the following year. We are constantly growing and what wasn’t meant to be may come to us when we least expect it.