I spend this time of the year in talking to my friends, relatives and fellow bloggers to know about their resolutions and found shaky answers.

So I did some research to find out the naked truth behind the psychology of non adherence to New Year resolutions.

As per Wikipedia in a 2007 study conducted by Richard Wiseman from the University of Bristol involving 3,000 people showed that 88% of those who set New Year resolutions fail.

So often we make these huge resolutions for the new year, like writing a 500 paged novel, reading 50 books in a year, quit smoking, learn something new, get organized, save money, keep the weight off, to run or…

What next? Without fail, just after some time, we’ve stopped making any progress on the goal.

It’s time to stop and contemplate

Why it’s happening time and again?

There is an old story which states about keeping your eye on a far off goal may not help you out falling into a tear right front of you. It’s because we lose sight of what’s right in front of us. We miss on all the seemingly little things we have to do along the way to fulfill those goals.

In the other case if we are entrapped in complexities of our immediate problems, they drain us out in such way that we lose the farsightedness.

Here are six tips which will certainly help you in getting rid of the shattering resolutions once and for all

All of us are champions at planning; unfortunately the challenge lies in the execution. The most detailed plan fails if it doesn’t get put into action.

Have some warm up time

Every single moment is brand new in our life so we shouldn’t not wait until New Year’s Eve to think about resolutions and instead take some time out a few days before and reflect upon what I really want to achieve.

Most Important resolution

Identify your most important resolution and forget about the rest, the chances of success increases drastically when you converge you’re thought process towards one objective. I am a huge admirer of mono-tasking and I have seen some very good examples in my own life, so I’d suggest going for only one resolution. Most people go for the usual resolutions; you need to fix your own priority resolution.

Don’t repeat

I was even stunned to read the same resolution postings of some fellow bloggers year after year. Revisiting your past resolution sets you up for frustration and disappointment and hence should be avoided or given some break. If you are sharing them on your blog, Search engine algorithms may penalize them for content redundancy parameter. You betcha!

Share

Keeping your resolutions to yourself makes it all too easy to simply forget about them. Peer-support makes a difference in success rate with resolutions. Quoting Frank Ra author of “A course in happiness” Resolutions are more sustainable when shared.

Remind yourself

Fix a chart in your room in order to periodically remind yourself of the benefits associated with achieving your goals by creating a checklist of how life would be better once you obtain your aim. Put alarms on your phones/tablets.

Reward yourself

Our life is a celebration itself, as and when you achieve a little milestone or small-goal, simply reward yourself. Allow yourself a very-very special and exclusive treatment; it’s a way to tame your reflexes.

With all these points always remember our life is happening and it’s happening now.

Another Lot

Interestingly in another part of my study I observed a Common trending answer from many “My resolution is not to have one!”

If this is you, I have a brief message for you: Stop!

Think about the reason and past experience which drags us to skip making resolutions out of whatever reasons. It is our failure to commitment which derives this answer. We have been defeated badly. Let’s treat this failure as a temporary set-back rather than a reason to give up altogether. Do not carry the blame with you in case you falter, do not allow the experience to make you out of the race.

Have a great time!