Why? Because a resolution in this sense are goals, or steps required to achieve a goal. Only losers would do something this necessary for success only once a year.
Take weight lose as an example. It’s probably the most common, along with quitting smoking and ‘reducing’ drinking. Listen – if you want to lose weight you have to change you lifestyle – you have to change the way you behave. This isn’t a goal. This is just something you do. It’s easy. First: stop buying garbage at the grocery store. Second: stop eating fast food at work and sipping syrup all day. Third: Find a way to require exercise of yourself on a daily basis – take the stairs at work, park far away from the front door, hop on the elliptical while you catch the news.
Many self help books will tell you the following in a much fancier and more enlightening sounding way, but I’m not here to make you feel good about buying a $20 self help book so I’ll give it to you simple. People who succeed at things do so because they follow – or at least try to follow – a detailed plan. Is there something you want? Cool. Figure out exactly what you need to do to get it, break those requirements down into tasks, and make sure you complete those tasks according to a schedule.
And here’s the big secret: Your plan isn’t going to work. If you do succeed it will be because you learned more about your goal along the way – following your plan – and revised your plan to improve or fix it. You never know what’s going to happen. You might think you want a certain position at your company – so you make it a goal and develop a plan. Maybe that plan requires some additional training? And maybe that training teaches you that you’d hate that position? Your plan failed miserably – but – you’re one giant step closer to success – which is getting a position that you actually will love as much as you thought you’d love the initial one. Get it?
Or maybe you want to work in a certain field, so you start training for it – perhaps learning technology ‘A’. And as you start to get a handle on technology ‘A’, you slowly start to realize that technology ‘A’ is becoming obsolete and you need to instead learn technology ‘B’. Now, the six months of spending your two hours after dinner and before bed studying technology ‘A’ might seem a waste, part of a failed plan. It’s not though. Now you know what you need to know. And believe me, when it comes to technology understanding what you need to know is half the damn battle.
Just don’t get horribly ill because that screws everything up.
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