4 tips for your New Year’s resolutions

Every year, it is a popular custom to start the new year with good intentions. Tonight we even have a decade of change ahead of us. How are things looking? Have you already formulated your New Year’s resolutions? Today we would like to give you a few thoughts for the new year on how you can increase the likelihood of achieving them simply by being mindful when formulating them.

Here are 4 tips for your New Year’s resolutions:

1. Use add-language. Phrase your New Year’s resolutions in a way that moves you towards something rather than away from something. So: I want to pay more attention to healthy eating in the new year. Instead of: I will eat less sweets. Or: I want to spend more time with my family and friends. Instead of: I will no longer sit late at the office in the evenings.
2. Treat yourself to something. New Year’s resolutions are more likely to be implemented and kept if you really feel like it, if you treat yourself to something that is easy for you. For example: I will allow myself an hour on Saturdays in the new year to stroll through the market with a large basket and pick out the most beautiful fruit and vegetables for myself. Or: I will make myself a nice cup of tea in the evening – depending on my mood – and integrate a new relaxation ritual into my life.
3. Take small steps. Only make very small changes. They should be easy to implement if they are to have a real and lasting chance of being realized. For example: I want to read ten pages every day before I fall asleep. Or: I will drink a large glass of water in the morning before I have breakfast.
4. Ask “What for?” three times – and answer. Is your resolution actually something you want to implement yourself? Or do others think you should do it? Find out by answering the “what for” question three times. For example: I want to take the next step in my coaching skills in 2020. What for? So that I can act more confidently in difficult situations and be even more helpful to my customers and colleagues. And why is that? So that I am still in demand and people are happy to come to me when they need support. And why is that important to me? I think it’s important for me to be in demand because it also means job security. It’s also nice to be needed and in demand. It boosts my self-confidence and gives me more ease overall.

Is there a helpful tip here for you and your New Year’s resolutions for 2020? We wish you lots of joy in implementing them, daily moments of pleasure and happiness in the coming year and, of course, always a large portion of solution focus in your luggage – just in case. 😉

Happy New Year! We look forward to as many wonderful encounters with you as possible – because that’s our good intention!

Kind regards, your sinnvollFÜHREN team