2023 is slipping by, a few days more and the shining rising sun of 2024 will shine on mother earth and all its inhabitants.
Christmas decorations adorn the streets of cities across the world. People are in a celebratory mood, parties are in full swing, shopping centres thrive. Its difficult to get a booking at a salon or for that matter a table at a restaurant. However joyful people are, at end of the year office parties or in gatherings with their friends and loved ones, there is one factor which is common. Everyone sits to retrospect, reflect and imagine what the new year will bring to them. Human beings are born with that natural instinct to improve themselves and do better. The urge to succeed, the ambition to earn more and better ourselves are primary driving factors for all of us.
End of the year therefore becomes a time to look back and see how far we have come and learn from our failures and successes. This is the time when new year resolutions are made to improve oneself or curb bad habits. These resolutions can be as common as giving up smoking, starting to lose weight, learning a new hobby or lifechanging ones like putting mental and physical health on priority, ensuring work life balance or making exercising an essential part of our daily routine.
For the majority of us, these resolutions are implemented with great enthusiasm and zeal initially but as time and life goes by, they drop off one by one and we go back to our comfort zone, rejecting positive transformation. Mindset powers resolutions and here are three steps to creating smart resolutions which become the stairway to the change you want in your life.
Make real resolutions
Think deep while you make your new year resolutions. Resolutions that are flippant remain on the piece of paper you wrote them on and soon get dumped into the dustbin. Remember, creating resolutions is not a game. They are your identified areas of self-improvement and any change is difficult to bring about. It’s a matter of unwiring yourself and rewiring yourself to a new mindset. The best way to create your new year resolutions is to match it with your individual growth plan. Then your resolutions become relevant. However easy the resolution sounds, it needs persistence, patience and tenacity to make the change real, therefore reflecting in your behaviour. Therefore, begin by making real resolutions
Create a resolution roadmap
Since creating resolutions are like promises to change your attitude and behaviour you need to break each resolution down to smaller implementation steps. And no change plan works without milestones and timelines. So, chart out your change roadmap. More importantly, measure your progress periodically to ensure that you are on track. Say you have resolved to lose weight. It’s dangerous to lose weight rapidly. Consult your nutritionist, who will create a diet plan for you aiming at say reducing 5kgs of your body weight in 6 months. You will first have your list of dos like eating according to your diet plan but the more difficult are the don’ts. You will need to say good bye to your favourite ice cream, french fries or chocolates! The don’ts is most often the difficult part for all changes
Get a resolution coach
When we join a new organisation the HR Department gives us a ‘buddy’, who is a colleague who helps us settle down and optimise our productivity. When we make essential changes in the way we are wired to respond or behave, we tend to give up easily as other priorities take over. If we get a resolution coach, who could be one of your close friends you trust, you are answerable to a well wisher for your transformation. If you fall down trying, your resolution coach will help you get up and run again!
“Everything is possible, not only when you believe, but also when you act on it. It all begins with you” De philosopher DJ Kyos
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