10 Tips to Reduce Your New Year Resolution Slippage

Got your New Year Resolutions sorted? 

Fired up and ready to get going?

Got your New Year's actions and goals planned?

The question now is how long will it last? Come on let's be honest with ourselves. We are only human and no matter how good our intentions are, many of them (if not all) will inevitably slip.

So how do we reduce or better still prevent slippage?

1.  Make your resolutions achievable - small goals can be easier to achieve.
You know what they say, a chocolate elephant is more easily eaten in small bites!

2.  Write them down and review your progress weekly.
I write mine down every Christmas and tick them off as I achieve them - a great motivator.

3.  Share your resolutions with others who will support and encourage you.
This is a must for those resolutions that are hard to achieve.

4.  Create realistic deadlines and review dates.
Review your progress, update your actions and deadlines and you're more likely to stay on track.

5.  If it is a repetitive resolution that you always brake then either ditch it or change it.
Your success is linked to how much you really want to change so think carefully.

6.  Work out how you sabotage your resolution success.
We sabotage our success from a subconscious level for reasons such as:
                 * People we love and care for may not like the change
                 * We have a deep belief that we are not good enough or strong enough
                 * We don't really believe we can achieve it
                 * We are doing it to please others and not ourself

7.  Link them to something that gives you passion or strongly motivates you.
Keep your motivation high by focussing on how success makes you feel

8.  Make sure the pain of the need for change is greater than the pain of the change.
Be that physical or emotional pain this is important to success

9.  Work at fully identifying yourself with the outcome of your goal.
Success depends on you fully identifying yourself with the changes your resolution will create

10. When you are tempted to break your resolution focus on the pain.
By remembering the pain you will feel if you break your resolution it is easier to stick to it


Good luck and let me know how and when you achieve your resolutions.