New Year Resolutions – 5 Ways To Really Reach Them

Resolutions on New Year – we make many and break many. Keeping up on a resolution has been pretty hard for us. We are guilty of it too, blame ourselves but don’t try on them again, what’s done is repent only. And we stop making them knowing that those won’t be fulfilled, we are so helpless. Poor us. Well, I will not freshen up your memories of broken resolutions and make you sad; instead I would share my way of looking, making and try on fulfilling resolutions.

Every year we make resolutions something like these – to lose weight, get a better job, drink less, study more, start a blog, etc. End up failing on all. We generally focus on outcomes, or say goals about which we are not even sure. Or say we are sure that we won’t be reaching them. Why make a goal that you yourself know is hard to reach?  And later repenting on failures doesn’t makes point! Failures are failures till you work on them to turn them into success; otherwise it’s just a habit. So I would suggest come out of the vicious circle of unreachable outcomes and focus on Process.

Yes Process, set your sights on process in 2014 and you will automatically reach your goal.

1. Work on Something Artistic – Most people find art as a waste of time, typically they know about it is taking up crayons and start painting, that’s what mostly kids do. But this is not a single form of art; rather I would say a primary form.  Art is story-telling, dance, games, drama, writing and many more acts that you can connect to imagination. Indulge yourself, in say, writing. But yes then the artistic devil creeps in. This devil will tell you hundreds of reasons why you can't write: "People will laugh at you. This is not good writing! What kind of sentence is this? Look at your handwriting!", but conquer it all to find yourself and reach your goal. Roland Barthes once said of Flaubert's novels,"Flaubert did not write a novel. He merely connected one sentence after another. The eros between sentences, that is the essence of Flaubert's novel." That's right -- a novel, basically, is writing one sentence, then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence. And you continue to make connections.
2. Walk The Talk – You discuss about how pathetic your new device is, your job, the household problems, the project issues, all discussions on made on your couch, meeting rooms, in short, you sit and discuss. How many times it’s been that these discussions prove fruitful? Less I would say. Moreover, sitting prohibits your activeness, so why not come out of the room and walk the talk? This will let people more actively participate in discussions as two activities make you more attentive. And hey! You will lose weight too!
3. Make Stress Positive for you – In stress you keep thinking on something negative making the situation more stressful. View the world as a bunch of negativity, recalling all the bad moments and disappointments you had till the dat. This leads to work stress against you making you weaker and prone to chaos, indecisiveness and health issues, finally. So start doing positive things when in stress, care about someone, talk to a child, and try see the rarely seen side of stress – the optimism. Think how this stress will help you reach something you desired for.
4. Try Digital Detox – We have our gadgets everywhere we go. Mobile, i-pads, computers, lap-tops, i-phones are now unavoidable new members of our life. We can’t think of leaving them behind even for the tiniest of the activity. To make it short, we are slaves of technology now, which controls our lives more than ourselves. Take a step ahead and move out of the reach of daily gadgets – hop on a digital detox – while on a walk, a drive, or simply sitting in nature. The act would re-energize you, fuel up your thoughts, and bring forward some new ideas, solutions to problems, eventually you come to know your real being. All pollution in your mind fades off, and a new light enters.
5. Keep on Reading – We generally read the current affairs in newspapers and are done with our reading, feeling happy about it. Unaware of the fact that it was just enriching our knowledge base not our minds. Our brains needs food, food for thought and that comes through some motivational reading which could inspire us. So start reading motivational write-ups, I’m not saying grab a novel, that would take a lot of time and I’m sure you have less of it. Read blogs of motivational writer’s, of CEO’s, artists and people who you look upon. Articles on Linkedin in the section Leadership and Innovation would also help you and many more like this are there.

These all are another way of reaching your well-defined goals. Work on these Processes and move on the road to achievement, goals would seem to be near.