Big Frank is getting ready for 2009 in the traditional way – deciding on his New Year Resolutions.If you’re curious about what the top ten resolutions are? Check out here and see if yours are there - most likely at least some are. So once you have your resolutions made up then what? Well some research has revealed some good ways to hold to those resolutions. Susan Miller and Alan Malatt did research on this at the University of Washington, and this is what they found: have a strong initial commitment to change; have some strategies to cope with problems arise; track your progess – positive feedback helps. And persistence is important; it turns out that only 40% were successful immediately – most achieved success after multiple tries. Finally Marlatt gives this helpful hint – take credit for success, but don’t blame yourself for failure – rather concentrate on removing the barriers and plan a better way to remove them on your next attempt.
Next Big Frank offers a link to some tools to help manage your new year’s resolutions. Among others there is a useful link to Joe’s Goals, a free online chart to help you keep track of your success in meeting your resolutions on a daily basis. You can set it up in less than one minute.
And for those of you who just need some help with some specifics within those main resolution areas, here are some lists to help you out - just click on the link that is all about your resolutions:
- Budget
- Yoga for cycling
- Dating
- Exercise
- Increase your happiness
- Increase intelligence
- Organization
- Remember your dreams
- Weight Loss
- New Hobby
- Travel for less
- Improving your bowling
- Career change
- Tough decisions
- Out of Body Experience
- Best Washington Wine 2008
For those interested in compliling resolutions - you have five days left. If anyone would like to share - Big Frank would welcome input.
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