Doing 2020 New Year Resolution the Right Way

Doing 2020 New Year Resolution the Right Way

Have you thought of what you want to do with your life in 2020? What are your New Year’s Resolutions?

Or you are just the type that goes with the flow?

If you are not, then you don’t need to wait until New Year to make a resolution(s) for your life!

New Year is an excellent occasion to make right what went wrong last year. 

Don’t you agree?

You likely had too much on your plate from the previous year, too many goals, too many unfinished projects and too many disappointment from the people around you.

Think about your hobbies, attitudes, personal experiences, the company of friends you keep, the things that elude you in 2018, and the things you could not achieve.

Regardless of the hurdles you encountered, the troubles you faced and late-night without achieving anything.

Focus on your goal(s) this New Year.

What do you want to change in your life?

You can try to make yourself better by getting rid of your bad habits.

My New Year Resolutions is throwing away the less important stuff, and focusing on the important stuff that can bring a change to my life in 2020.

Let’s face it, we can’t just take away our daily hobbies, friends and attitudes with a single swoop!

That’s the reason why we need to do our New Year resolutions the right way in 2020.

It does not matter if you are doing New Year resolution as a student, a worker or someone who don’t know how to write New Year resolution.

What matter is, you are doing New Year resolution right now!

After making your resolution, the next agenda is following it up!

To follow it, you need to avoid previous mistakes.

Take a different approach to your problems, make it a habit to solve one problem time and remain within feasible New Year resolutions.

Doing a New Year resolution is simply changing one’s attitude, mindset by setting achievable goals for a year!

What is your New Year Resolution?

Whenever the phrase New Year Resolution is said, it is a promise made by an individual to a better self.

It is a serious effort to do something within a period of 12 months that can better their life.

However, these days, New Year Resolutions are usually lame and unachievable.

Because, instead of making a resolution to achieve a goal, you set so many goals that can’t be realized.

Then you blame the world for your failure and broken dream(s).

Some common New Year’s resolutions are;

• Love God more
• Make money online.
• Become an artificialintelligence specialist 
• Get a job.
• Own a Lamborghini/car
• Own a beautiful home in Abuja/Banana Island in Lagos
• Get married
• Becoming a twitter/facebook influencer
• Start a new date
• Give birth to a baby
• Get an international passport to travel out of Nigeria for good!
• Get a boy/girlfriend
• Make more friends.
• Hang out with friends
• Meet celebrity
• Becoming a better person
• High grades.
• Clean skin.
• Peace of mind
• Good career
• Financial stability

All these are good goals, regardless of what your desires for 2020 are, I believe if you can fall asleep with love and forgiveness in your heart and wake up full of God Grace, this is also a New Year resolution.

To some people here in Nigeria, they think New Year resolution is all about smoking weed and wearing high heels.

I’m sorry, a resolution is not about weed and heels. It about becoming a better person in life.

Today, I’m going to be helping any person or group of persons interested in learning to reach his/her goals for the year 2020!

Here are the tips you need to follow;

Evaluate Last Year’s Resolutions.

To be successful in 2020, you need to reevaluate last year’s resolution critically and analytically!

• You will want to ask yourself the following questions;
• Did I reach my 2018 New Year goals?
• What where my struggles, hurdles strength and my weakness?
• Did I focus too much on a particular goal and never achieved it?
• Did I lose sight of my initial goals and start pursuing a new goal?
• What did I do wrong along the line?
• What should I focus this year and how should I go about it?

Give a thought on the previous year resolutions, find what works and what did not for you and why.

This will help you reset your goals for the year 2020 so you can become successful in realizing a fulfilled year.

Deciding on Smart New Year Resolutions for 2020

Before you start judging people based on what their New Year’s resolutions are, please keep this in mind

What you consider precious may not have value before another

 After all, as humans, we have different goals, values and beliefs in life. 

Decide by picking the smallest goal you have set for yourself and try achieving it in a stipulated time frame.

Some New Year resolution are smart and some are not.

Therefore, SMART resolutions are those that are;

Definitive

Define and narrow done what your goals are. Device means of achieving these definitive goals. Remove practices, attitudes, behaviour and association that may hinder the realization of these goals.

Quantifiable

Can you progress, development and success be measured? Make sure that all goals can be quantified within the stipulated time.

Time

Any goal that can’t be achieved with a short time is a long period goal. 

But since you are making a New Year resolution, then the goal(s) must be achieved within the year or before the runs out. 

Define and stick to the time-table for each goal to be measured.

As soon as you have made a resolution, it must be definitive, quantifiable and achievable in the time allocated to it.

The Strategies for Reaching 2020 Resolutions

Planning has always been the key to success!

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Without a plan, how do you intend to achieve your New Year resolutions?

"A general with great tactics can turn the tide of war no matter how massive the opposing army is"

source Factrepublic 

You must detail the road-map to achieve your goals and how you can go about it.

Each step must be completely mapped, studied and reevaluated to achieve the set goal(s).

Anticipate and be ready for Any Challenge

It’s a fool errand to think that there are no challenges in a perfectly laid down plans.

Anticipate your challenges and think around and outside the box for solutions for such hurdles.

Although you can not think of all possible challenges and solutions, you just have to be ready for them.

“A wise king never seeks out war, but… he must always be ready for it”

Source: Marvelcinematicuniverse 

There is no escaping it, no denying it! You just have to accept it and make an apt response to it.

Narrowing Down the Goals (break down your 2020) into Tiny Pieces

Challenges come in different packages and different sizes.

Therefore, to face this challenge and come out successful, you need to narrow it down to tiny pieces that you can handle.

Stop considering how to the enormity of the challenge and how you keep wallowing about the setback it’s bringing and start thinking of how to;

• Divide it into smaller parts.
• Chose the easiest and begin with it.
• Decide the best approach towards solving the problem.
• Proceed with caution.

Commit to the challenge and be optimistic about the solution you are applying to conquer the challenge.

Divide your resolutions accordingly to the months of the year and start tackling them.

Keep a mental and documented record of your process, procedures, failures and success.

For challenges, you can’t handle or could not resolve, add-them to your today-list for the next month.

Keep a Progress Report throughout the Year

Review your progress regularly by consciously making efforts towards keeping to your schedules.

Regular and consistent daily, weekly or monthly keeping track of progress could go a long way into motivating you to become vigilant towards failure.

Once you have successfully achieved a goal, check for its relevance and over roll contribution towards realizing other goals for the year.

Accepting defeat and Rejoicing in Success

Failure is a part of success, the sooner you understand, accept and think for the solution, the better!

It is impossible to live without failing, but at every junction of failure, it opens an opportunity of learning, adapting and evolving!

Understanding the failure brings of growth and development is the key that opens the doors for success.

After every failure, create habits or attitudes that will help you stay focus on your goal(s).

Find ways to stay motivated with your goals for 2020 by never quitting, but reinforcing, restrategizing and engaging the challenge with optimism.

On a Final Note

You may want to beat yourself up when you can’t achieve your 2020 goals.

Don’t!

Take a practical approach towards doing 2020 New Year resolution the right way and evaluate the past and strategize the present to become successful.

Remember and accept the failure is part of success, work towards recognizing your strength and weakness to realize your dreams.

Motivate your efforts and don’t quit when the tuff get going!

Instead of waiting and wallowing whenever you encountered failure, think of not letting such failure repeat itself.

What are your 2020 resolutions and how do you intend to achieve them?

I will love to read your thoughts!