How To Stick with New Year's Resolutions

New Year's is a synonym for resolutions. This is the time of year when you want to make changes and start anew. It is also the time of year filled with good intentions and empty promises. Why? Well, mostly because you either forget about them, your goals seem unreachable or you simply count them as failures as time goes by. Why not make them a long term success by staying focused on each one of them? How can you make it easier? The answer is obvious...visualize them. You see, 70% of people are considered to be visual, 20% are auditory and 10% are kinesthesic-tactile. You can use this info to help you out.

1. Visuals like to "see" their goals! Purchase yourself a bulletin board, a presentation board, a photo album or even a scrapbook. As some of you may not have the room for the first two options, the last ones may take less room. But make sure to store them in an easily accessible place, as you need to refer to them often. Use pictures, clip-art, magazine cut-outs or computer-generated images in order to picture your goals. Label each one with the idea or goal describing them. You can put them in priority sequence or put them all on the same level, as they are all important.
2. Auditory people need to "hear" their goals! Use a tape recorder or a digital record to voice your resolutions or goals. Describe each one thoroughly. You can add this recording to your visual goals to add more power to them. You can always carry the recorder with you in order to listen to your resolutions over and over again, as needed in order to remain focused on them and keep you motivation level high at all times.
3. Kinesthesic-tactile people need to "take action"! Write down the steps required to make each goal or resolution a success. Set the motions by springing each little step into action as like gears, each element propels a whole process by its actions. It doesn't matter how small each step is - each one is as important as the next. You can also add these steps to your visual resolutions or goal as well as the recording of their description to remain focused and add power to each one of them.
4. Refer to your resolutions often! In order to keep your resolutions or goals alive, refer to them often; this fuels your motivation and will make it easier to remain focused on them. If they remain out of reach or out of sight, your resolutions will more than likely follow the path of failure...just like the ones of previous years.
5. Believe in your dreams! Each resolution or goal is a dream of yours. Size doesn't matter in this case. What really matters is how you intend to realize them. Each one will require work, sweat, patience and persistence as nothing will happen on its own. Each dream's magic is yours to grab as long as you are willing to do everything in your power to make it happen. Nothing is easy in life and nothing will be handed to you on a silver platter - you are the main element responsible for its realization. The dreams are yours as long as you want them!
6. Believe in yourself! The minute you lose confidence in yourself is the time where your resolution or goal becomes another failure. Although making your dreams into reality is not easy, the possibilities are endless as long as you believe that you can do it. The truth is that you are your worst enemy when you do not believe in yourself. This is the main obstacle; it will breed laziness and excuses for why you did not succeed. The fact is, if you do not put all the effort, all your might and all your heart into it, you will never know how many dreams you could have made a reality.
7. Don't listen to negative souls! Always keep in mind that the negative soul is this way because it is scared to try and fail. This soul has never thought of the possibility of succeeding. In fact, it is easier to admit defeat than invest time, effort, energy and a lot of work into it. You do not need their negative influence in life. Go back to them later to prove them wrong by sharing your successful resolutions with them. As they see your success, they will start to believe and even approach you for advice on how to encounter success. Be there for them as you will help them out.
8. Create a section for successful resolutions! Once a resolution or goal has been successfully completed, put them in a section of their own in order to visualize the goals that you have reached and increase your self-confidence. Record your successful stories and all the details about them. Write down all the steps that were done in order to achieve your goals. Review these success stories regularly as they will increase your motivation and will make you more determined than ever to fulfill you other resolutions.
9. Add closure by reviewing your successes! At the end of the year, on New Year's Eve, review the resolutions you had for the ending year. Evaluate the successes and add the uncompleted resolutions to your New Year's list of resolutions as them may need more than a year to be completed. Never see an incomplete resolution as a failure. Look at it and ask yourself what you can change and do to make it happen. Look at the positive and embrace its positive energy. Enjoy!

Contrary to popular belief, resolutions are not meant to be broken. Do not make them if your intentions are not sincere. Resolutions are goals to be achieved and dreams waiting to become reality. All they really need is you, your full commitment, your time, your effort, your patience and your self-confidence. Nothing happens overnight or on its own. You are the main element responsible for the success of each one of them. You can do it as long as you really want to do it! The rest will make history!