New Years Resolutions

80% of people who make new years’ resolutions are unsuccessful in achieving them and yet so many of us continue to half heartedly make them every year.

However, if we're genuinely serious about turning a new years resolution into reality, we need to view it as we would view a long journey in the car. If we set out to go somewhere and want to arrive at our destination, we need to:

• Know where we’re going,
• See where we’re going
• Plan how we’re going to get there.

If we’ve not taken the time to cover the above points before we start our journey, then we're setting off wearing dark glasses, with no map or sat nav and no clue of where we want to get to. In such a scenario, we'll either get nowhere or we’ll get lost, or we’ll crash because we can’t see where we’re going!

If you're serious about achieving your new years resolutions, you need to:

- Get support from someone who you trust. That person needs to be someone who will not only stand alongside you, but will also challenge, motivate and hold you accountable.

- Ensure your resolution is achievable. If it is unrealistic, you will feel disappointed in yourself when you fail to achieve it.

- Ensure your resolution excites you and stretches you. Work out the positives of achieving your resolution and then focus on the positives, and see yourself achieving it, in order to movitate you.

- Break your resolution down into small chunks. This will help you celebrate your small milestones along the way to achieving your resolution as well as helping it seem like a series of small hills which can be climbed, rather than a towering mountain which can't be climbed.

- Get passionate about your life. Try to use the resolution as a catalyst for taking control of your life and changing the other things in your life which need addressing.