New Year’s Resolutions — A Long List but Can You Keep Them

The magazine Good Housekeeping published a list of 65 new year’s resolutions about a week ago. It’s a long list with starting a gratitude list sitting at the top. That resolution is followed by making more time for family and setting a livable budget.

We won’t bore you with the rest of the top-10 and the whole list but do encourage you to go through it and see what fits. The magazine says the secret to actually keeping your goals is to set goals you can actually achieve.

Weekly Industry News Editor Gary Wolcott offers a good example. One year he made a resolution to become the kind of person his dog thinks he is.

“I failed miserably starting on day one,” Wolcott laughed and said, “No one can possibly achieve a goal like that. And my dog really didn’t care anyway.”

Good Housekeeping’s article points out — like Wolcott found out — that a goal needs to be something that is attainable and doesn’t require a big overhaul of your daily routines. Setting a being-the-person-your-dog-thinks-you-are goal is aiming too high and will only end in frustration and failure.

From here, your first step is to figure out exactly what you want and how to get there. Thus the 65 suggestions. We encourage you to click the source link below and check out the list.

Source link: Good Housekeeping — https://bit.ly/3C7xeti