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A different approach to New Year's resolutions

Have you made a list of your New Year's resolutions yet?

Maybe the easiest thing to do would be to just pull up last year's list. After all, how many of the things on last year's list did you actually accomplish?

Maybe your plan was to put several things on your list with the hope that you would at least accomplish some of them. Or maybe you put things on your list wishing they would somehow magically happen.

The easy way to make New Year's resolutions

The technique is simple—just pull up last year's list of resolutions. Face it. If you're normal, you didn't get many of the things on the list accomplished. Or even worse, maybe you didn't even make much progress on the projects you had on your list.

If you accomplished the things on last year's list, you're not normal.

Forget about listing the usual things, such as losing weight, reducing debt, saving some money, or getting a new job, buying an RV, or a different RV.

How about only one resolution?

Instead of coming up with a list of New Year's Resolutions, how about having just one major resolution? List something important, and then actually make it happen.

What's the one main thing you would like to accomplish this coming year?

I don't normally make a list of New Year's resolutions, but this year, I'm going to make one big resolution. I going to learn Spanish.

But that's too vague. How would I know when I had accomplished that goal?

So, my goal is to spend a minimum of 15 minutes a day, five days a week, studying Spanish. My plan is to spend a lot more than 15 minutes a day, but that's the minimum.

Bottom line: Instead of writing down a list of things you wish would happen this coming year, how about writing the one big thing you're going to make happen one way or the other?

What is the one important thing you want to accomplish this year? Write it down, and then make it happen.