New Year Resolutions

It is very common to make new year resolutions and even more common to fail at reaching them within first couple of months of the year.

There are few things that I have learned from my failures and successes over the years that I would like to share with you. First, I started looking at new resolutions as my "goals", something I wanted to achieve that year, but as goals had to come up with an actual plan of how to achieve them. Last year, I decided I wanted to cook more. I wanted to eat more cooked meals at home, and actually try new recipes and add more variety into my repertoire of things that I already knew how to make. In order to meet my goal (or a resolution), I had to do some planning ahead of time. If I wanted to make something for dinner, I had to check the day before what I needed, write it down, and then buy all the ingredients on my way back home from work. Thinking ahead also helped me with the problem I seemed to have of having food in my fridge go bad and having to throw it out. I hate throwing out food, but when you live alone and not eat much, every week you find yourself with something that has moulded or rotted its way out of eatable state.

Keeping a quick diary of your steps and things you are doing to achieve your goal is also a great way in making sure that you are going to achieve it. That way you also give yourself assurance that you are doing everything you can to make your goal a reality.

Finally, it's important to have support in order to achieve your goals. Let your friends and family know what your goals and resolutions are. That way they can check in with you from time to time to see how you are doing in achieving them, and even better, help you along the way.