New Year RESOLUTIONS

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Today I have something realistic about new year resolutions. NEW year Resolutions have been made right from the beginning of 2017, now my question is how many of those resolutions have you achieved. I don't engage in new year resolutions because as the year goes by we tend to loose track of what we want to achieve before the end of the particular year so I decided to stick to New month resolutions... Many of us are thinking of it as a new year and making plans towards the year and a very few of us are seeing it as a new month and also a new year.

Making new year resolutions is like planning ahead but come to think of it the time Frame is very long. Yes u can make new year resolutions but why not resolution instead of resolutions i.e if you have a plan to achieve in a year and plans you can achieve in a month. I would prefer to plan my month which has max of 31days and min of 28 for the very special and unique month.

HOW TO ACHIEVE GOALS EITHER FOR NEW MONTH OR NEW YEAR

**FIRST YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IT'S POSSIBLE **

You Get What You Expect*

Scientists used to believe that humans responded to information flowing into the brain from the
outside world. But today, they’re learning instead that we respond to what the brain, on the basis of
previous experience, expects to happen next.
Doctors in Texas, for example—studying the effect of arthroscopic knee surgery—assigned patients
with sore, worn-out knees to one of three surgical procedures: scraping out the knee joint, washing
out the joint, or doing nothing.
During the “nothing” operation, doctors anesthetized the patient, made three incisions in the knee as
if to insert their surgical instruments, and then pretended to operate. Two years after surgery, patients
who underwent the pretend surgery reported the same amount of relief from pain and swelling as
those who had received the actual treatments. The brain expected the “surgery” to improve the knee,
and it did.
Why does the brain work this way? Neuropsychologists who study expectancy theory say it’s
because we spend our whole lives becoming conditioned. Through a lifetime’s worth of events, our
brain actually learns what to expect next—whether it eventually happens that way or not. And
because our brain expects something will happen a certain way, we often achieve exactly what we
anticipate.
This is why it’s so important to hold positive expectations in your mind. When you replace your
old negative expectations with more positive ones—when you begin to believe that what you want is
possible—your brain will actually take over the job of accomplishing that possibility for you. Better
than that, your brain will actually expect to achieve that outcome.

You Gotta Believe

You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve

When Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Tug McGraw—father of legendary country singer Tim McGraw
—struck out batter Willie Wilson to earn the Phillies the 1980 World Series title, Sports Illustrated
captured an immortal image of elation on the pitcher’s mound—an image few people knew was
played out exactly as McGraw had planned it.
When I had the opportunity to meet Tug one afternoon in New York, I asked him about his
experience on the mound that day.
“It was as if I’d been there a thousand times before,” he said. “When I was growing up, I would
pitch to my father in the backyard. We would always get to where it was the bottom of the ninth in the
World Series with two outs and three men on base. I would always bear down and strike them out.”
Because Tug had conditioned his brain day after day in the backyard, the day eventually arrived
where he was living that dream for real.
McGraw’s reputation as a positive thinker had begun 7 years earlier during the New York Mets’
1973 National League championship season, when Tug coined the phrase “You gotta believe” during
one of the team’s meetings. That Mets team, in last place in the division in August, went on to win the
National League pennant and reach game 7 of the World Series, where they finally succumbed to the
Oakland A’s.
Another example of his always optimistic “you gotta believe” attitude was the time, while he was a
spokesman for the Little League, that he said, “Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a
skill that’s often overlooked in Little League.” And then he smiled his infectious smile.

Believing in Yourself is an Attitude
If you are going to be successful in achieving your new year resolutions, you have to believe that you are
capable of making it happen. You have to believe you have the right stuff, that you are able to pull it
off. You have to believe in yourself. Whether you call it self-esteem, self-confidence, or self-
assurance, it is a deep-seated belief that you have what it takes—the abilities, inner resources,
talents, and skills to create your desired results.

Believing in yourself is a choice. It is an attitude you develop over time. Although it helps if you had
positive and supportive parents, family, friends, colleagues, the fact is that most of us had run-of-the-mill parents who
inadvertently passed on to us the same limiting beliefs and negative conditioning they grew up with.
But remember, the past is the past. There is no payoff for blaming them for your current level of
self-confidence. It’s now your responsibility to take charge of your own self-concept and your
beliefs. You must choose to believe that you can do anything you set your mind to—anything at all—
because, in fact, you can. It might help you to know that the latest brain research now indicates that
with enough positive self-talk and positive visualization combined with the proper training, coaching,
and practice, anyone can learn to do almost anything. If a 20-year-old Texan can take up the luge and become an Olympic athlete, a
college dropout can become a billionaire, and a dyslexic student who failed three grades can become
a best-selling author and television producer, then you, too, can accomplish anything if you will
simply believe it is possible.
If you assume in favor of yourself and act as if it is possible, then you will do the things that are
necessary to bring about the result. If you believe it is impossible, you will not do what is necessary,
and you will not produce the result. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

And finally consider 3things

1. Consideration
2. Fear
3. Roadblock

It’s important to understand that as soon as you set a goal, three things are going to emerge that stop
most people but not you. If you know that these three things are part of the process, then you can
treat them as what they are just things to handle rather than letting them stop you.
These three obstacles to success are considerations, fears, and roadblocks.
Think about it. As soon as you say you want to double your income next year, within moments
considerations such as I’ll have to work twice as hard or I won’t have time for my family or My
wife’s going to kill me begin to emerge. You might have thoughts such as My territory is maxed out i can’t see how I could possibly get the buyers on my current route to buy any more product
from me. If you say you’re going to run a marathon, you might hear a voice in your head say, You
could get hurt, or You’ll have to get up two hours earlier every day. It might even suggest that
you’re too old to start running. These thoughts are called considerations. They are all the reasons
why you shouldn’t attempt the goal all the reasons why it is impossible.
But surfacing these considerations is a good thing. They are how you have been subconsciously
stopping yourself all along. Now that you have brought them into conscious awareness, you can deal
with them, confront them, and move past them.
Fears, on the other hand, are feelings. You may experience a fear of rejection, a fear of failure, or a
fear of making a fool of yourself. You might be afraid of getting physically or emotionally hurt. You
might be afraid that you will lose all the money you have already saved. These fears are not unusual.
They are just part of the process.
Finally, you’ll become aware of roadblocks. These are purely external circumstances well
beyond just thoughts and feelings in your head. A roadblock may be that nobody wants to join you on
your project. A roadblock might be that you don’t have all the money you need to move forward.
Perhaps you need other investors. Roadblocks might be that your state or national government has
rules or laws that prohibit what you want to do. Maybe you need to petition the government to change
the rules.
Stu Lichtman, a business turnaround expert, took over a well-known shoe company in Maine that
was in such bad shape financially, it was virtually doomed to go out of business. The business owed
millions of dollars to creditors and was short the $2 million needed to pay them. As part of the
proposed turnaround, Stu negotiated the sale of an unused plant near the Canadian border that would
bring the company $600,000. But the state of Maine had a lien on the plant that would have taken all
of the proceeds. So Stu went to the governor of Maine to inform him of the company’s dilemma. “We
can either go bankrupt,” he said, “in which case nearly one thousand Maine residents will soon be out
of work and on the unemployment rolls, costing the government millions of dollars.” Or the company
and the government could together pursue Stu’s plan of keeping the company alive, helping to keep the
state’s economy going, keeping nearly 1,000 people employed, and turning the company around in
preparation for a takeover by another company. But the only way to achieve that goal was to
overcome you guessed it the roadblock of the state’s lien on the plant. Instead of letting that lien
stop him, Stu decided to talk to the person who could remove the roadblock. In the end, the governor
decided to cancel the lien.
Of course, you may not encounter roadblocks that require you to approach a governor—but then
again, depending on how large your goal is, you very well might!
Roadblocks are simply obstacles that the world throws at you—it rains when you’re trying to put
on an outdoor concert, your wife doesn’t want to move to Kentucky, you don’t have the financial backing you need, and so on. Roadblocks are simply real-world circumstances that you need to deal
with in order to move forward. They simply exist out there and always will.
Unfortunately, when these considerations, fears, and roadblocks come up, most people see them as
a stop sign. They say, “Now that I’m thinking that, feeling this, and finding out about that, I think I
won’t pursue this goal after all.” But I’m telling you not to see considerations, fears, and roadblocks
as stop signs but rather as a normal part of the process that will always appear. When you remodel
your kitchen, you resign yourself to a little dust and disturbance as part of the price you will have to
pay. You simply learn to deal with it. The same is true of considerations, fears, and roadblocks. You
just learn to deal with them.
In fact, they’re supposed to appear. If they don’t, it means you haven’t set a goal that’s big enough
to stretch you and grow you. It means there’s no real potential for self-development.
I always welcome considerations, fears, and roadblocks when they appear, because many times
they are the very things that have been holding me back in life. Once I can see these subconscious
thoughts, feelings, and obstacles, once I am aware of them, I can face them, process them, and deal
with them. When I do, I become better prepared for the next venture I want to undertake.

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