Resolutions. Most people set them, then forget them. The problem
with resolutions is that it’s socially acceptable to give up on
them by the second week of January. If you don’t plan to begin
working on your New Year’s resolutions until after New Year’s
Day, maybe they weren’t really that important to you anyway.
Another problem is that setting resolutions is usually
indicative of procrastination … it’s an easy way to delay
getting started on your goals. Resolutions are usually all or
nothing propositions. Nothing in life works that way, though,
does it? Very, very few things are all or nothing. Most are just
a matter of degrees. Couple this problem with how most of us set
resolutions far too big and you have all the makings of giving
up by January 5th. Resolutions also tend to be negative and
these negative resolutions have a smaller chance of success
because we’re wired to DO something rather than to NOT do
something. So … Set goals instead of resolutions A real goal is
specific, measurable, achievable, rea