From Underearning to Abundance » make plans http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com How to leave the darkness of Underearning for a bright life of Abundance Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:56:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Are New Year’s resolutions doomed to fail? http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/2009/12/are-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions-doomed-to-fail/ http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/2009/12/are-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions-doomed-to-fail/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:15:47 +0000 ElinAnna http://www.fromunderearningtoabundance.com/?p=225 Continue reading →]]> If your New Year’s resolutions have failed in the past, then you are in the majority.  The fact is that most people who make New Year’s resolutions fail to keep them.  Well, we might have suspected that this would be the case.  Now a group of researchers at the University of Hertfordshire in England have shown that it is actually so.  The main reason they found is that most people focus on how awful it would be to fail.  In their attempt to keep their New Year’s resolution, people half heartedly try to fight their temptations and only dream of reaching the goal.  Then they look for someone who supposedly reached the goal, plaster their picture up for motivation.  plaster their picture up on their wall or refrigerator for motivation in the hope that this will help.  On top of everything else, people put their trust only in their own willpower to get them where they want to go and don’t make any plans for how to get there.  This a sure way to fail at your New Year’s resolution.

So now you know how to increase the probability of accomplishing your New Year’s resolution.  Do the opposite of the failure described above.  Follow what the researchers found by doing the following:

  1. Make a plans for how to achieve your goal
  2. Involve others (get support and accountability)
  3. Focus on how positive it will be when each small step of your plan is reached
  4. Keep a journal over the journey to help you understand your successes so you can do them again!

and you will drastically increase the probability of reach your new year’s resolution.

So good luck and have a great New Year!

Love and peace,

ElinAnna

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