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NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS, HOW TO ACHIEVE THEM



International entrepreneur Mary Kay Ash once said “Many spend time planning a vacation than planning their life.” It is easy to sit down and watch life slip off our hands when we do not consciously decide to plan how to achieve our goals and make our dreams come true.

Year in year out, people come up with their New Year resolutions. That is the first step to making the New Year your best year ever, but that is enough. You need to write down your goals in their order of priority.

How do you set goals? For a moment, imagine what you would like to have if it were impossible to fail? If you can get anything you wish in your life, what would you dream of? When I asked a friend this question, he said he would like to be a billionaire. I then told him that he should have that at the back of his mind as a long term goal.

I helped him to break his long term goal into short-term goals, middle range goals and then, long term goals. You can set quarterly goals and yearly goals. At times, you will realize that a series of short term goals can help you to achieve your long term goals.

Put your goals down. Take a piece of paper right now, and write down three things you will like to achieve. Set goals for your Finance, Family, Friends, Fun, Faith, Future and Fun. How much would you like to earn or save? What plans do you have for vacations and corporate excursion? What plans do you have for improving your spirituality?

Every goal has a cost associated with them. Are you prepared to make the sacrifices commensurate to achieving your goals? When I was planning to be a columnist, I realized that I had to sacrifice some time to thinking, composing, and then typing my article on my laptop on a weekly basis. Don’t kid yourself. You will have to some of the things you had to get some of the things you don’t have.

Be specific about what you want to achieve. It is not enough to say that you want to shed some weights. Being specific means saying what you want to achieve in details. If one of your goals is to save up more money, being specific means determining how much exactly you want to stack up in time.

Stop procrastinating. Recently, I was talking to one of my clients. I asked her how far she has gone with her makeover company. She told me she is still thinking about setting up her office in her community. I later encouraged her to set a goal for her business in the New Year. If you want to achieve more this New Year, come up with a list of some of the things you have been procrastinating about, and set a goal to achieve them.

Be disciplined. Be commitment to achieving your goals. Are you willing to take the risk involved in achieving your goals? In the word ‘goal’ the first two alphabets are ‘go.’ Don’t be too consumed with the details of how to achieve your goals. Go out there and take the first step. Make a phone call or send an e-mail to that person. Force yourself to do something no matter how little that will draw you closer towards achieving your goals.


Reward yourself. When you reward yourself after achieve your short term goals your body will produce the necessary energy to achieve other goals. In other words, success breeds success.

Be focused. You can achieve almost anything in life if you have a plan of action and you are focused. Keep moving even when you fail. Note that every great achiever in the world has failed at one point or the other in life.

Make sure your goals are smart. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time bound. Once you are specific about what you want, then you have to be able to measure your progress. Setting goals that are attainable means you should be set goals that will stretch you a bit, but are easy to achieve. Being realistic is the ability to set goals for what you want in life, not what someone else wants for you. Time bound goals have a deadline.


Take action. Don’t be tempted to say I will set my goals later. It may be worthless reading this article if you don’t take action based on what you have read so far. It is not what we know that makes us successful, but what we do that makes a difference. This is my own way to make my world a better place. This is my way of achieving my goal to make a difference. Take charge!


By: Agbolade Omowole

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