The Reality of New Year’s Resolutions
About this time of year, we all know people who think up “resolutions” to follow. They often see them as GOALS to achieve, but honestly, how many people are able to follow through?
Not many, right?
It seems the same resolutions are made time and time again, things like:
- Go on a Diet
- Get your finances in order
- Get in shape
etc. But more often than not, people fail. Which is why it’s not surprising there so many diet, exercise, and get-rich-quick books, DVD’s, etc. out there — people struggle with these goals all the time.
Think Hard, Think Often
My question to you is, why wait until the start of a year to come up with goals?
If you do that, you leave out 364 other days when you can decide to do that important something.
The way I see it, while it is admirable for people to come up with personal goals to improve themselves, oftentimes they set up unrealistic timeframes for themselves to meet those goals. They expect the “uncommon results” that are featured in so many infomercials. But to achieve any of the above in a few weeks or months is usually unrealistic — the nature of these positive changes require time and constant attention.
The key to success then is a regular mindset to affect the change that you want now, not something that you wait until next week or next month, and certainly NOT waiting until the end of the year to make a notion to change or improve.
Therefore, if say, you want to get your tax return done early, then it makes more sense to set aside the time NOW to go ahead and do either a weekly or monthly completion of your records and/or books, organizing receipts, balancing your checkbook, etc., rather than waiting a whole year.
If you do not set aside the time (in this case, maybe 30-45 minutes a week), you’ll find April 15th creeping up sooner than you think, and THEN, the task of looking for receipts, reconciling books, etc., will seem like an insurmountable challenge indeed.
Constant Improvement in Baby Steps
So the lesson here, whether it’s taxes, diet, exercise, or whatever — nothing happens overnight. The key to achieving anything worthwhile that truly requires lots of time and commitment is simply as it seems: it DOES require the time and commitment.
So, decide on your goals today and pursue them.
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