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There is a right way and a wrong way to make a New Year's resolution. Here are a few expert tips to see that your resolution actually makes a difference:
1. Create a Plan
Setting a goal without formulating a plan is merely wishful thinking. In order for your resolution to have resolve, (as the word "resolution" implies), it must translate into clear steps that can be put into action. A good plan will tell you A) What to do next and B) What are all of the steps required to complete the goal.
2. Create Your Plan IMMEDIATELY
If you're like most people, then you'll have a limited window of opportunity during the first few days of January to harness your motivation. After that, most people forget their resolutions completely.
It is imperative that you begin creating your plan immediately.
3. Write Down Your Resolution and Plan
myGoals.com exists to help you formulate a plan, which we then help you stick to. But even if you don't use myGoals.com, commit your resolution and plan to writing someplace, such as a notebook or journal.
4. Think "Year Round," Not Just New Year's
Nothing big gets accomplished in one day. Resolutions are set in one day, but accomplished with a hundred tiny steps that happen throughout the year. New Year's resolutions should be nothing more than a starting point. You must develop a ritual or habit for revisiting your plan. myGoals.com helps you stick to your plan by providing email reminders that arrive when it's time to work on a given task.
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5. Remain Flexible
Expect that your plan can and will change. Life has a funny way of throwing unexpected things at us, and flexibility is required to complete anything but the simplest goal. Sometimes the goal itself will even change. Most of all, recognize partial successes at every step along the way. Just as a resolution isn't accomplished the day it's stated, neither is it accomplished the day you reach your goal. Rather, it's accomplished in many small increments along the way. Acknowledge these incremental successes as they come.
GOOD LUCK AND SEND US YOUR RESOLUTION/GOAL STORY!
About myGoals.com
myGoals.com is the Web's leading destination devoted to helping you identify and accomplish anything you set out to do. Whether your goals are personal or professional, short-term or long-term, lofty or simple, we can help. It's what we do.
  
 
  
First, you tell us what you'd like to accomplish, be it as simple as keeping your nails trimmed or as epic as exploring the ocean floor. Next, we help you easily structure a plan of attack, breaking your goal into manageable, bite-sized tasks. We then help keep you on track, making adjustments along the way, until you've reached your goal.
Our approach is easy enough for anybody to use. It's flexible, powerful, and fun. People are using myGoals.com for accomplishing everything from starting companies to stopping pollution; from losing weight to gaining friends; from learning to drive a stick-shift to designing safer cars.
Given a couple of weeks, months, years, or a lifetime, what would you like to get done?
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