Re-evaluating Your New Years Resolutions

By Author: Sam Sander
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Did you set New Year resolutions for yourself to achieve in 2009? Maybe you committed to eat better, get more exercise, or spend more time with your family. Or perhaps you set yourself some career goals. All of these are very good resolutions, but how are you progressing with them now?

With about 100 days to go until the end of the year, it's a good chance to look at what you've achieved so far this year and more importantly how to make the remainder of the year really count by preparing a plan to the end of the year. So have you met your resolutions that you established at the beginning of the year?

Here are a few ideas to evaluate where you are at with your resolutions as you approach the downhill slide to the end of the year.

Take some time to sit down alone and review your goals. How many are you on track to achieve? How many have you not even started? How many have you finished?

For those goals you haven't even started, obviously this goal hasn't been a priority, and most likely won't suddenly become so. Re-evaluate the need for this goal and if it is still a priority to you, reset your goal ...
... at 10 percent of the original so you can gain some progress this year.

For the goals you are on track to finish, try to stretch these about 10 percent. This will give you a reason to kick into high gear for the rest of the year.

And finally, for the goals you have already achieved, give yourself a reward.

For all these goals remember that it is better to try hard and fail, than to take the easy option and attain nothing at all.

If you're like me though, you probably think that you need lots of goals, and that you need to achieve all of them in order to be successful. The main point to remember is that goals should be important to you, and bring value to your life in some way.

Realise that you are human, and that no one is perfect. Take baby steps to reach your goals, and they won't seem so big.

By taking care of yourself, and not putting the pressure on to create resolutions that you may never keep, you'll be able to enjoy the rest of 2009 to your fullest.
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