Sick and Tired of Goal Setting the old Way? Read this for 3 Tips…

By Julie Silfverberg

It’s that time of year again start of the New Year, time to look to the future. I don’t know about you but I like the New Year I feel it’s time to look forward to lots of possibilities and put any past challenges, problems or upsets firmly in the past. Lots of people, perhaps like you, sit down at this time, to decide what possibilities to work towards in 2014. However there are others who have done this year after year only to disappoint themselves by not achieving their goals.

As a result goal setting is very popular at this time of year for some and other have resolved not to do it anymore. In fact research show the majority of people have fallen off the wagon, so to speak, by 21 January. So what’s the problem, how does this happen? Oftentimes it may be bringing your old bad habits on into the future, creating the same old problems, instead of the desired solutions coming to fruition. So perhaps this year, for a change, you might find it interesting to look at what you can leave behind, instead of considering a whole bunch of things that you need to do. Like everything, there is more than one way to skin the cat. In a way you can think of it as; less is more. So my suggestion is consider; what you could stop doing, what can you leave in the past, what might you simply forget to do that would enable you to achieve your goals more easily.

Let’s look at the top three goals people set for themselves in the New Year.
·      Weight loss
·      Get more organised
·      Save more money

So in order to achieve your goal;
1.     What could you stop doing?
2.     What can you leave in the past? So it gets no further than 2013.
3.     What can you forget to do?

I’m going to make some suggestions here, these specific ones might not suit you, but I’m hoping they might provoke you into thinking what you could do or in this case not do!

First: Weight loss
1.     Stop eating in front of the telly
2.     Leave in the past the thought that you can’t lose weight
3.     Forget to eat crisps

Second: Get organised
1.     Stop multitasking
2.     Leave in the past the thought that messy desk proves you’re really busy
3.     Forget to hold onto every piece of paper and crosses your desk

Finally: Save more
1.     Stop using your credit card
2.     Leave in the past the thought that you’ll always struggle with your finances
3.     Forget to buy things that you don’t actually need, whether it is five cappuccinos a week or a new pair     of shoes you saw in the sales - but in fact don’t need right now

What do you think could this work for you?