It’s New Year’s Resolution Time, and chances are you are going to fail… again!
As long as we keep listening to conventional wisdom about goal setting and resolutions we are never going to succeed.
Every year we get the advice to set realistic goals, write our goals down and track our progress.
So we religiously write down our resolutions. We have countless apps and computer programs that make tracking our progress easy. Also I will argue that most of our resolutions are in fact realistic.
The most common New Year’s resolutions are to lose weight, stop smoking and spend more time with family. These seem very realistic to me. The problem isn’t that we set a goal of losing 100 pounds and then only lose 50-75 pounds or even 10-20 pounds.
The problem is that we set a goal to lose 100 pounds, then either do not lose any weight, or even worse, gain weight.
Forbe’s magazine recently reported that only 8% of people succeed at keeping their New Year’s resolutions. So the chances of us succeeding this next year isn’t looking very good.
Let’s try something new this year. Let’s break away from conventional wisdom and do what works.