You have to be committed to your resolutions in order to make them happen. Before you set your goals, think about how committed you are to them.

1. WHY YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FAIL
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2. WHY YOUR RESOLUTION FAILS
It’s interesting to me how so many people set New
Year’s resolutions but fail within a few weeks (if not
a few days).
Why is that?
I think that the problem is that most resolutions are
unrealistic or general (I will lose weight, I will eat
healthy, I will spend more time doing ____).
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3. W H AT ’ S Y O U R R E S O L U T I O N ? D O Y O U S E E
T H I S P A T T E R N ? H E R E ’ S S O M E H E L P. . .
Your level of commitment is crucial!
If you are not ready to commit to change, whether
it is a career change, losing weight, learning how
to ride a horse, etc., it won’t happen.
You have to be committed to make it happen.
Before you set your goal, think about how
committed you are to it.
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4. COMMITMENT EXERCISE
I have my career coaching clients measure their commitment to career change on a
scale of 1-10.
If it’s not at a 10, I ask them to think about what would make it a 10.
How can they move it up the scale?
Career coaching example: Commitment is so important when someone comes to
career coaching. Even those who are completely confused and miserable at their
current jobs. IF they make a commitment to finding their dream job, they will succeed.
“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” ~ Marilyn Greist
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5. SMART GOALS
Most of you have heard about SMART goals
by now (Specific, Measurable, Attainable,
Results-oriented {realistic/relevant}, Timely).
The problem is that most people know what
SMART goals are, but not that many are
successful at creating SMART goals for
themselves.
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6. SMART GOALS
Our coaching clients are more successful at
reaching their goals when they create weekly
and monthly checklists with SMALL action
steps.
SMART goals are very important. You also
need to take the small action steps along the
way to help keep those goals in check.
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7. EXAMPLE
Many people say they want to lose weight in the New
Year. That’s great – but how can it be a SMART Goal
with small action steps.
My suggestion would be not to focus on the full year.
Start smaller. So for example you might want to say that by April 1st you will have
lost 10 pounds (specific – not just lose weight). It is a measureable, attainable,
realistic, timely goal.
Your baby steps in your checklist for week 1 might be to have a salad every day.
Week 2 might be to add 30 minutes of exercise 3 times a week, etc…
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8. A B O U T C R E AT E Y O U R C A R E E R PAT H
Create Your Career Path was founded by certified career coach, speaker and
author Hallie Crawford. Crawford has served on the Board of the Georgia Coach
Association, and is regularly featured as a career expert on CNN, Fox Business News
Forbes.com, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo HotJobs and Entrepreneur Magazine.
Create Your Career Path is a boutique career coaching firm known for their personal
attention, commitment to clients and a blend of dreaming and being practical in
achieving career goals. Collectively in the past 10 years, they’ve helped hundreds of
clients all over the world find and succeed in their dream job.
Each of their coaches are certified coaches with specific career coaching experience
and training. They cater to professional men and women, management level and
higher, in mid-career transition. Their success rate is 97%, measured by the number of
people who have gotten what they wanted out of coaching. The coaches use a
specific tried and tested process and tools developed by Hallie Crawford over the
years.
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