What are your New Year Resolutions for 2020 ?

New Year Resolutions may come in many ways. Some people promise to change a bad habit, like quitting smoking or eating less junk food. Others make a promise to develop a positive habit, such as starting an exercise program, volunteering in their community, or recycling more. 

The New Year's resolutions tradition dates back to 153 B.C. January was named for Janus, an early Roman legendary god. Janus has two faces— one facing ahead, the other looking backward. It allowed him to look back to the past and to the future. The Romans imagined Janus looking back into the old year on December 31 and moving forward into the new year.This has become a symbolic time for Romans to make new year resolutions and forgive past enemies for trouble.

The Romans also believed that in the previous year, Janus could forgive them for their misdeeds. The Romans would give gifts and make promises, hoping that this would be seen and rewarded by Janus in the next year.

And so the concept of New Year resolutions was born!

So have you ever wondered which are the Top 10 most common New Year 2020 resolutions ?

According to me, here are some suggestions that you might like to consider for the new year 2020 resolutions :

1.     Exercise and keep healthy

2.     Learn a new skill

3.     Save money

4.     Quit smoking

5.     Travel to one foreign location

6.     Donate money for charity

7.     Make your home more beautiful

8.     Volunteer for events

9.     Donate old clothes

10. Meditate Every day

 

So now that you have decided on your new year resolutions, its time to take the next step and plan for a strategy that will help to stick to your resolutions. So what should you do? 

Read on …………

1.     You have a fix a goal that reminds you of your New year resolutions

You would be surprised how often people set goals that aren't for themselves. A manager, spouse, or parental / peer pressure could dictate or coerce these goals.

While having some external support is nice, if you don't share the same passion, the resolution has a small chance of success and may even be dead upon arrival.

To do this, you should insure that the target you set is essential to you and to you alone, and that you have interest and gain in achieving the goal. It is these two things that will give the reason for taking action and willingness. This is also referred to as motivation!

2.     Now write down these goals

While having goals is great, documenting them in some way is critical. Here are six incentives to write down your objectives: they can be easily forgotten. While that may seem stupid, we are human, and it is easy to distract and forget that it is human.

It helps you to clarify what you want to achieve by writing down your resolutions. With your words, it encourages you to make decisions and to be specific.

Publishing sets aim, but action is needed to reach the resolution. It is a daily reminder to take steps to have a written account of your priorities.

Written goals can act as a filter for what opportunities to pursue and guide light. There are a million decisions to be made on any given day.

 3.   Try automation wherever possible

You would be surprised to know that modern day technology has made it possible to remind you of your goals on the fly. You may want to try the following tools/apps to help you:

Google Calendar: Set a recurring meeting tied to your resolution, i.e. scheduling workout sessions at the gym.

Google Now: Personal assistant that provides information as you need it.

Reminders (on iOS): Set up timed alerts for tasks.

Boomerang for Gmail: Schedule reminder emails to yourself (Freemium).

On top of these commonly used apps, there are also “to-do list” and task management apps that have the ability to schedule reminders and milestones. Here are a few popular choices:

• Asana
• Trello
• Todoist
• Microsoft To Do
• Omnifocus
• Things

 4.   Reflect on your resolutions …. have you been truthful?

Now let’s remember that, if you don't constantly talk about your goal, you won't go through it. Therefore, a daily analysis is a crucial part of achieving your goal.

This analysis should be on a monthly basis at least, but the more often the better.

Here's one way you can draw on your process in target analysis.

Schedule a quarterly analysis of the "big picture" during each month's first week. This will serve as a meeting of planning to distribute smaller tasks and goals throughout the month to different weeks.

To check progress on the monthly target, make a weekly check-in.Set a daily callback to smaller activities of resolution.It might seem a little crazy to think every day about your resolution

  5. Do not ever give up…. Keep your focus and be firm on your principles.
  Do remember that a goof up is practically inescapable sooner or later, and you should not let this become a reason to surrender. At the point when it occurs, you should draw on your stores of self-conviction and quality, so fabricate these characteristics as frequently as possible.

Truly feel glad for your past accomplishments and don't get disparaging of yourself. Individuals with higher confidence and certainty are in a greatly improved situation to succeed, so quickly pardon yourself and state "I'm beginning again now on my New Year resolutions for 2020

  

6. Finally, tell your friends and family that you have accomplished your New year resolutions

It's great to make a plan for yourself and perhaps even write it down, but it's easy to forget or even neglect if no one else cares about it. And no one will notice or care if you don't do this.

On the flip side, feel something different for your counterparts who have decided to tell someone about their goal. We feel a sense of responsibility and transparency now that they have gone public with their target. Essentially, they're going to let everyone down if you don't follow through.

The feeling of guilt is often more important than self-motivation, crazy as it sounds. The consequence here is that the people you interacted with will rejoice with you when you win!  So, congratulations and wish you success in your New Year 2020 resolutions.