New Years Resolutions: Tips for Setting Goals
With the new year right around the corner, many people are writing out their new years resolutions. While I have found that making new years resolutions don’t work for me, I do think it is a good time to evaluate my life, set new goals and realign old ones.
Challenge yourself but be realistic. If you are taking care of a family and a house and working at a job 20 hours a week, you probably won’t do well to set a goal to work on your business 5 hours a day.
Write out your primary goals and break them into smaller achievable goals. For example if your goal is to write a book on organization, some of your sub goals would be to research your topic, and write your first draft and find someone to edit the book.
I find that I am much more apt to read my goals regularly if they are typed or written out neatly. If they are jotted down on a crumpled up piece of paper, I don’t usually ever look at them again.
Some of your old goals may need to be tweaked or eliminated to line up with your vision for this new year. For example, perhaps one of your goals was to start taking classes so you could get a job in the medical field but after praying about it, you decide this is not a good idea-so this goal can be taken off your list.
