{"id":86,"date":"2015-01-14T09:47:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T09:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trakaccountants.com.au\/wp-blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2017-03-21T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T08:45:13","slug":"4-simple-steps-ensure-achieve-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trakaccountants.com.au\/blog\/4-simple-steps-ensure-achieve-new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"4 SIMPLE STEPS TO ENSURE YOU ACHIEVE YOUR NEW YEAR\u2019S RESOLUTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret that the most successful people in the world create lists of goals, have very clear mental pictures of their goals and hold positive self-dialogue about how they will make their goals happen. We can all benefit from using these techniques!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I encourage everybody to have a powerful list of resolutions this year. I believe your resolutions are much more likely to come to reality if you follow these simple steps for setting them and take daily actions to keep them at the front of your mind.<\/p>\n

New Years\u2019 resolutions are rarely taken seriously, which is a shame because the turning of a new year is a powerful trigger for making life-changing moves, genuine business success and increasing personal wealth. Most people would be lucky to even write their New Year\u2019s resolutions down, let alone look at them again.<\/p>\n

I challenge you to give this a try for 2015. You won\u2019t be disappointed if you stick with it consistently.<\/p>\n

Step 1 | Write a New Year\u2019s resolution list and put it somewhere where you can see it daily<\/strong><\/p>\n

Try to limit the list to a maximum of 10 things you would like to achieve this year and include a mix of different goals such as financial goals, relationship goals, personal development goals and charitable goals etc.<\/p>\n

Step 2 | Add specific targets to your New Year\u2019s resolutions<\/strong><\/p>\n

A New Year\u2019s resolution without a specific target is useless, you won\u2019t know whether your really achieve it or not.<\/p>\n

Beside each of your New Year\u2019s resolutions write a specific target and make it time bound. For example:<\/p>\n

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  1. Rather than \u201cI want to lose weight,\u201d you could write \u201cI will weight 65kg (10 kilograms lighter) by the end of the year.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. Rather than \u201cTo build my business,\u201d you could write \u201cI will turnover $1.5 million this year.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Rather than \u201cTo increase my wealth,\u201d you could write \u201cBy the end of this year I will have added a $40,000 share portfolio to my assets.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Step 3 | Daily visualisations<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I may be an accountant with my foundations deeply entrenched in the power of facts and figures but I can\u2019t talk highly enough about the power of visualisation. As mentioned above the daily habits of successful people generally include the use of visualisations. I urge you to add this step into your daily habits to help bring your New Year\u2019s resolutions into fruition.<\/p>\n

    Take your list of New Year\u2019s resolutions and create a visual picture of what your life, self, bank account, etc. will look like when you achieve your New Year\u2019s resolutions.<\/p>\n

    So using the three examples above, your daily visualisation examples could be:<\/p>\n

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    1. Visualising yourself at your goal weight, wearing your favourite outfit to a special event, feeling fit, healthy and comfortable.<\/li>\n
    2. Visualise yourself throwing a Christmas party for your staff for having helped you reach your goal of $1.5million turnover for the year.<\/li>\n
    3. Visualise rewarding yourself with a great holiday for reaching your goal of adding $40,000 to your share portfolio and picture yourself enjoying a cocktail by the pool at that beautiful resort that you\u2019ve always dreams about.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      To get the most out of your visualisations, spend 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening to run through all of your fantastic visions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

      You might like to have actual pictures that inspire you, but also make sure you close your eyes and imagine yourself in the images with your minds-eye.<\/p>\n

      Step 4 | Affirmations<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Again, I\u2019m pretty sure most people would not expect an accountant to be telling you to take up affirmations, but again, a common tool of many successful business and sports people are affirmations.<\/p>\n

      To make your resolutions real, use affirmations on a daily basis and have around three affirmations for reach resolution. Similarly to the visualisations, focus on achieving your resolutions and strengthen the visual images with self dialogue. I\u2019d suggest running through your affirmations at the same time you do your visualisations. The affirmations should take you no longer than 5 minutes at the most.<\/p>\n

      Using our example New Year\u2019s resolutions, your affirmations could be:<\/p>\n