Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions

Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions

Now that you’ve had time to come off the holiday high, it's time to start really thinking about those New Year’s resolutions you promised to keep. While it can be easy to fall off the proverbial wagon when it comes to resolutions, there are ways to help yourself stay on track and actually follow through with your intention to make some positive changes in your life.

Keeping New Year’s Resoutions.com states, "According to the experts, many of our resolutions are just too lofty. The outcomes we value take so long to attain that we're apparently setting ourselves up for failure."

Basically, if you can set smaller, realistic goals that you can reach in a reasonable time-frame, you are more likely to reach your goal and then move on to the next one. Instead of trying to lose 60 pounds in a year, try to lose 5 in a month for example. And, you are more likely to stay motivated with a little taste of success along the way.

With this strategy in mind, here are some common resolutions and ways to help you stay on track.

Finding That "Special Someone"
There’s no real way to plan for this one, but you can make yourself more available to meeting new people and potential dates. Why not try online dating? Sites like Match.com offer tools to help the prospective date seeker with their profile and give dating advice from the experts. In fact, they are so sure you’ll meet your "match," that if you don’t, they’ll give you 6 months free!

• Match.com’s Make Love Happen Guarantee
• Cyber-Chemistry vs. Reality
• 4 Reasons To Date A Dork

Changing Your Career
Unhappy in your job? Could the perfect job be out there waiting for you? Since we are spending more and more time on the job and less time at home, shouldn’t our jobs be something we really enjoy instead of something we have to do just to pay the bills? Like all resolutions, this change requires some time and effort, but if you put your heart and soul into your job search, the benefit bill be a happier heart and a more satisfied soul in the workplace.

• Job Search from CareerBuilder.com
• Get Job Alerts by E-mail
• Five Reasons To Find a New Job in 2008

Lose Weight/Get in Shape
This is probably the most common resolution of them all. It’s one of life’s mysteries — how something that makes you look and feel better - working out, exercising, healthy diet - is so hard to keep up with! The goal here is to make a lifestyle change, not to "diet" or punish yourself with exercise because you overeat. If you maintain a healthy lifestyle, you won’t see it immediately in your waistline when you occasionally indulge.

• AT&T Health Channel
• Make That New Year's Fitness Resolution Stick
• Health Encyclopedia

Whatever your resolutions, just remember they were made with the intention to really change your life. Stay positive! Perhaps, make a resolution to keep your resolutions?

Courtesy of the MY AT&T home page

Published: 1/4/08, 3:55 PM EDT