Happy New Year to everyone. Its a lot that we all have seen in the current year and everyone wants to breathe afresh but how can we?
‘New Year Resolution’ is one such method to realign yourself with your higher self . It might be in any aspect say fitness or business or startup or even a ‘New You’.
How can you ‘realign’ yourself to reach where you want?
Simply by sticking to your resolutions.
Attach OBJECTIVES to your resolutions and see the change happening
Objectives are set of guidelines to cater to the expectations of the leaders/management/firm as a whole. Just like every organization set their objectives, you too can personally attach objectives to your resolutions. You will thus set realistic targets.
Objectives are the set of principles. They are something you are striving to surpass those limits of your own.
Why these objectives help?
These objectives hold your hands when you try to deviate from the vision. Moreover, they take care of you by not letting you set unrealistic resolutions.
Remember that time is the essence of everything. Let us, without much philosophical gulping, dive into the pool of objectives for your goals.
Note that: Defining an objective is as easy as eating and following it is as hard as digesting!
Be cautious… and at the same time… be strategic and challenging
Let us imagine that you set 5 resolutions for the upcoming year. As an example let us assume these 5 basic resolutions…
- Will join a gym to be fit -many among us set this! (fit can further be weight loss/gain, strength, chiseled body, etc)
- I will go for a jog daily –it can be in the evening or morning
- I will join a violin class
- I will give up procrastination- {procrastination is literally …the art of delaying things!}
- I will spend more time in self mastery
Certainly, none of us will write like this-“From next year I will make more money”
The above activities are irrational-you can certainly guess why. Because they are not definite!
As the resolutions are set, her comes the next important thing –‘write them down and keep them in front of you’
Just by writing these statements will hardly work, if you don’t define them or specify them. To our rescue comes the objectives
Imagine you have started a company called-‘I will give up procrastination’. To make this company work, you as well as your employees and clients should know what your company is aiming. Let us define the objective as follows:
I will give up procrastination
Why?
Give reasons to your objectives as follows
- To make myself productive
- To enhance my activity schedule so that I will utilize my time in doing things which I like or which I wanted to do
- To eliminate idleness in my life and bring a sense of activeness
- To save this intermediate time and utilize it to read a book
- To take up a relevant course online and finish it up within this floating period
Always keep these objectives in front of you (paste them on your table/wall/refrigerator/etc).
Looking at these will help you when you will feel low and uninterested in doing your goals.You must always look back and think why you started and you will get your answers here in your objectives! ultimately your chances of quitting on resolutions will decrease.
Along with the objectives, the vision, and the mission statements, you can add more value to your determination if you also state the pros and cons of working and not working on those goals/resolutions.
For example, if you have written- I will brush my teeth twice daily, then the pros will be your healthy teeth without pain while the cons will be getting a root canal(A painful operation!)
At last, you have to take up the challenge and start working from day zero. You need not to get upset if you miss or deviate from the desired goal. Again realign with same enthusiasm because to err is to human…!
Share your resolutions with your dear ones. It will bring a sense of seriousness in you. By doing so, your chances of sticking to the goal will increase.
In this year,let’s achieve significant goals, let’s hope for greater good, let’s attract abundance, let’s elevate to higher self…
Wish you a bright year ahead 🙂
Sophisticated Minimalist 