Forget New Year's Resolutions - They Don't Work

You can forget about making New Year's Resolutions if you're hoping for a successful outcome.  Most aren't worth the paper they're written on.

No less than Mark Twain has written of New Year's Resolutions, "Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.  Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.  Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath.  Today, we are a pious and exemplary community.  Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever."

The biggest majority of New Year's Resolutions have gone by the wayside before January is over and most won't even be remembered six months later.  And the reason is pretty simple: Most are made in response to something negative -- a habit or situation that the person wants to change or end.  And therein lies the problem - it's hard to develop momentum from a negative response.  It is always easier to move toward something rather than away from something.

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Consider one of the most adopted resolutions --- weight loss.
No one can get excited about losing weight because it requires deprivation.  It's a negative response to concerns about appearance, health, etc.  The results of weight loss Resolutions demonstrate their weakness.  A 1998 survey sponsored by Gardenburger found that more than three-fourths of all women between the ages of 25 and 54 make diet and weight-loss plans each year.  Nearly nine of 10 respondents reported only occasional or no success, while almost half lost little or actually gained weight instead.

The people who succeed at losing weight and maintaining the loss have usually been motivated by a dream much bigger and more positive than just losing weight.  They see themselves living a healthy lifestyle.  They begin to act and think like people who are in good physical shape.  There's more of a radical change in a person's thinking and actions than you see with most resolutions.  It wouldn't be possible to effect and sustain such a radical change unless the person is motivated by a big dream that is positive in nature.
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Another popular aim is to quit smoking.  And I can certainly relate to that -- I was a three-pack-a-day smoker until I celebrated a smoke-free New Year's twelve years ago.  For over twenty years I had tried to quit many times using every tool and technique I heard about.  But as long as I was trying to quit, I couldn't break the grip.

Instead, I developed a dream to become a non-smoker.  I fell in love with the idea of breathing clean air instead of smoky air, of my body and clothes smelling nice instead of smoky.  I thought about how wonderful it would be to taste food again.  I decided to start acting and thinking like a non-smoker, and when the thinking took hold I simply quit smoking.  In all the years since, I've never wanted another cigarette, never even thought about wanting one.  Become a non-smoker with Quit Smoking Right Now!

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Most people are looking for the magic pill when it comes to wealth building. Because you may have been conditioned in school to memorize, regurgitate and get the "A", most people want to do the same with wealth building.  They want the magic formula to memorize and think that if they do it "right" they will have the "A."  They will be rich.  The bad news is that wealth building does not happen like that.

Wealth Building is about a series of HIGHLY strategic actions based on a plan for your life....not a template.  The good news is that Wealth Building is a creative, SIMPLE process that occurs at a time WHEN you commit.  "Until One has taken a committed, decisive first step, the 'next steps' will not be shown" - Loral 2003

Let me ask you this...

If you are not leading your Wealth Team... who is?
If you are not in the conversation about money... who is?
If you are not living out loud about your vision... who is?
If you are not role modeling success for your family/children... who is?
If you are not pacing your revenue to new performing assets... who is?
The right answer to ALL of the above questions MUST BE YOU.

Yes, there's an awesome responsibility that goes with wealth building and financial freedom. Money will not come to confusion. It comes to clarity.

If you are not clear and focused on what you want, how will you get it? Who will you serve?  You will have a wandering financial life versus a life that you could design for financial freedom day!

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The power in this program comes from the changing of old beliefs and habits toward money combined with a plan of simple and understandable action steps that will put you solidly on the road to a debt-free life of abundance.

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If you're going to make a New Year's Resolution this year, make one with a high probability for success.  Make a Resolution to develop a life plan.  Most people are in a free-fall through life, careening from one crisis to the next.  They wake up one day and 10, 20, 30 or more years have passed and they're nowhere near where they thought or hoped they'd be.  Working with a life plan you're much more apt to be excited by what the future brings even if you succeed at attaining only a small part of your plan.

A life plan should address all areas of your life including finances, health, relationships, career, spiritual and even recreational.  While a lot of our focus tends to be on financial issues like increasing income or decreasing debt, or health issues like losing weight or quitting smoking, the undeniable truth is that a life lived out of balance isn't a life of quality at all.

If you were going to build a new house and you had this idea for a fabulous master bedroom suite, you wouldn't rush out and start building the master bedroom.  You'd have a complete plan before you started.  When you approach resolutions and goals in the same manner, you end up with a much better chance of achieving success.

Copyright (c) Vic Johnson

Vic Johnson is a popular motivational speaker, author and Internet Infopreneur who has created some of the most visited personal development sites on the Web, including Goals 2009, that features goal setting programs and software as well as weight loss, smoking cessation and debt reduction solutions.

 


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