Want to avoid breaking your New Year's resolutions? That's easy. Here are 5 ways to avoid that...but is that really enough for you?

1. 5 Ways to Avoid
Breaking New Year’s Resolutions
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2. Question
When are the natural times in people's lives when
they consider where they are in life, how they got
there, and the changes they should consider?
Birthdays, anniversaries, funerals, tragedies, etc.
And...New Year’s

3. 5 Ways to Avoid Breaking
New Year’s Resolutions
1. Don’t make them.
But as Zig Ziglar said, "If you aim at nothing,
you will hit it every time."

4. Question
If someone doesn't set goals and make
resolutions, how does he/she measure success?

5. 5 Ways to Avoid Breaking
New Year’s Resolutions
2. Don’t write them down.
Something about a good intention changes when
pen meets paper. A goal written down (or typed)
becomes a mirror for the person behind the good
intention. It adds a level of accountability.
Writing goals and placing them in prominent
places helps us to avoid breaking New Year's
resolutions.

6. Question
What do you think would change if you wrote
down your goals and placed them where you
would see them every day?

7. 5 Ways to Avoid Breaking
New Year’s Resolutions
3. Don’t say them out loud.
The root word of resolution is resolve: "to come
to a definite or earnest decision about; determine
(to do something)."
If our resolutions can't even stand up to telling
them to someone else, they seem a bit short on
resolve.

8. Question
What could you possibly gain by saying your
resolutions out loud to another person whom you
can trust?

9. 5 Ways to Avoid Breaking
New Year’s Resolutions
4. Don’t be bullied into making
resolutions because the calendar
suggests it.
If the best way to avoid breaking New Year's
resolutions is not to make them, then this seems
a more convoluted way of not making them at all.
So if not at New Year's, then when?

10. Question
When are the times during a typical year when
you would most naturally set goals and make
resolutions?

11. 5 Ways to Avoid Breaking
New Year’s Resolutions
5. Don’t risk failure.
That's really what the avoidance of breaking New
Year's resolutions is all about, isn't it? The avoidance
of failure? No one wants to fail.
Have we really come to a place in our culture where we
are just content not to fail.
If you are still reading at this point, I don't think you
have. Take a risk.

12. Question
What goal to you have in mind that you are
afraid to say out loud to another person?

13. 5 Ways to Avoid
Breaking New Year’s Resolutions
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