Sample New Year's Resolutions: How to Write a Good New Year's Resolution
Posted: Sunday, January 03, 2010
by Mogama
http://www.mogama.info
Have you ever wondered how to make a sound New Year's Resolution? I have. I searched the Internet for sample New Year's Resolutions, and they were hard to come by. The best I found was an article by Wayne Parker. Perhaps I was not using the right search engine, or I did not sift through enough of the search results to find what I was looking for. So I decided to begin a list of sample New Year's Resolutions for other web surfers who need to see a good sample of a New Year's Resolution.
But first, let's remember that a sound New Year's Resolution should have the following 12 ingredients:
- Like a goal that is worth your time and effort.
- Positive, expressing something you want to do rather than something you want to avoid.
- Challenging, which means it is not too easy for you to achieve.
- Reasonable; it must be possible to achieve. That means you have the means or what it takes to reach your goal.
- Written. A promise in writing is more serious than a verbal one. Even car salespersons know this; they won't let you drive a car off the lot with a verbal promise.
- Measurable. You can tell whether you are making progress. You can measure how well you're doing.
- Specific. Pick only one area that you want to change.
- Targeted. The goal should be related to or contribute to your mission or purpose in life.
- Consistent with the rest of your life. It makes little sense to have an NYR that contradicts your other life goals or activities.
- Deadline. Attach a time frame that indicates when you will have achieved the goal or an aspect of it.
- Binding. Hold yourself to the written promise you've made, equal in force to any other written contract.
- Visible. Once you write it down, put it on your refrigerator or on your mirror, where you can see it almost every day.
- I will read a portion of the Bible every day, starting with the Gospel of John.
- I will pay $100 or more per week towards debts until I have paid off all debts.
- I will walk at least thirty minutes for at least five days a week.
- I will drink purified water from the health food store and 100% fruit juices instead of soda pops and other artificial drinks.
- I will take herbal vitamins and supplements every day.
- I will eat whole-grain, organic, natural foods instead of junk foods, so I can become more healthy and lose weight as a result.
- I will take my wife on a date one night a week.
- On the last Saturday of each month, I will take one of my children out to spend at least one hour together.
- I will cut my cigarette smoking down to one pack a day by January 31 and half pack a day by Mary 31, so that I can be completely cigarette-free by December 31.
- I will attend church for my spiritual development every Sunday morning.
- I will attend my son's basketball game whether in town or out of town, unless the game conflicts with my work hours.
- I will fast one day a week for spiritual and health reasons.
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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)As always a great read and to the point! Most helpful when one is grappling with this confusion of prioritizing one's resolutions, the ones to keep and the one's to throw away! Thanks !Please log in to respond to this comment.You know, Vinoo, I really appreciate you as a reader I can count on. Thanks very much for giving a reason to write one more article every time. Blessings to you! ~mogama~Please log in to respond to this comment.
Thanks for the examples.. :")Please log in to respond to this comment.You're welcome, Leslie. I hope you will reach your New Year's goals for the year. ~mogama~Please log in to respond to this comment.
i really like much your examples and thank you so much,,it is really helping.Please log in to respond to this comment.
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