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Ok, the new year is almost here. How will you KEEP your New Years resolution?
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1. Make a Bet
It's easy to say things you "want to do," but when a bet is placed on your head for following through, this outside motivation can help you actually stick to the goals you set for yourself. For a workout challenge I had with my wife, my consequence for failing was to rollerblade in a pink thong in South Beach...Yes, a pink thong. I didn't fail.
2. Become Accountable
It can be hard to stick to a resolution if you go it alone, whether it's a business-focused goal or "hit the gym three times a week." So get your significant other or a friend to check in with you regularly. That way you'll combine your own motivation with not wanting to let someone else down, and will hopefully stick to that resolution throughout the year.
– Grant Gordon, President and CEO, Solomon Consulting Group
3. Put It On Your Calendar
I keep my New Year's resolutions by thinking of them a little differently. Instead of a single yearly event, I decide to make consistent changes and put them on my calendar. For example, my 2006 New Year's resolution was to go to the gym at least four times per week. I put it on my calendar and I've been going to the gym for the past eight years. In fact, now I'm up to six times per week on average.
4. Use the Streaks App
Streaks is an app that helps you create habits. For each of your resolutions, you can create a calendar that allows you to "check" each day that you do what you say you're going to do. The goal is to maintain a streak. For example, if you want to wake up by 6 a.m. you would check each day that you achieve that goal. The longer your streak, the more likely you are to maintain that resolution.
Here are four ways to get this discussion started. Add your own! (Oh, this ought to be good....
)
It's easy to say things you "want to do," but when a bet is placed on your head for following through, this outside motivation can help you actually stick to the goals you set for yourself. For a workout challenge I had with my wife, my consequence for failing was to rollerblade in a pink thong in South Beach...Yes, a pink thong. I didn't fail.
– Chris Brisson, Co-Founder, Call Loop
It can be hard to stick to a resolution if you go it alone, whether it's a business-focused goal or "hit the gym three times a week." So get your significant other or a friend to check in with you regularly. That way you'll combine your own motivation with not wanting to let someone else down, and will hopefully stick to that resolution throughout the year.
– Grant Gordon, President and CEO, Solomon Consulting Group
I keep my New Year's resolutions by thinking of them a little differently. Instead of a single yearly event, I decide to make consistent changes and put them on my calendar. For example, my 2006 New Year's resolution was to go to the gym at least four times per week. I put it on my calendar and I've been going to the gym for the past eight years. In fact, now I'm up to six times per week on average.
4. Use the Streaks App
Streaks is an app that helps you create habits. For each of your resolutions, you can create a calendar that allows you to "check" each day that you do what you say you're going to do. The goal is to maintain a streak. For example, if you want to wake up by 6 a.m. you would check each day that you achieve that goal. The longer your streak, the more likely you are to maintain that resolution.