New Year, New You!
We promise ourselves to lose weight/ get in shape, make more money or stop smoking. The odd thing about these top 3 resolutions is that they are always the top 3. We make the same resolutions every year! The problem is if we are making the same promises to ourselves every year, we are not growing or progressing.
Not this year!
This year will be different. Instead of making a resolution and letting it fall by the wayside 2 months out you will instead make a declaration and a mission statement.
You will declare: I am a non smoker!
I am losing weight now!
I am debt free!
I am an investor!
I am energetic!
You will back your declarations up with a personal mission statement. Your mission statement will contain your declarations and will be use to guide your actions the rest of the year but more importantly, your personal mission statement will express your purpose, it reminds you of the “what” and “why” your doing your declarations .
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Another important step is to set up a goals sheet with deadlines. Make sure you break your goals up into quarters. In other words, you will complete your goals or a portion of your goals in a certain quarter of the year. Sometimes we get lazy in our thinking, in January, and believe we have all year to complete a goal and the next thing we know we are eating Thanksgiving dinner! So don’t let time get by you this year. Break down each goal and set it to a timetable. Then type it up and review it EVERYDAY to reinforce it.
Stick to it and next year you will be making different declarations because you’ve accomplished this years declarations!
