Setting Realistic Resolutions/Goals for the New Year

Everybody makes mistakes. Failure can be a motivation, for it drives you to have a bigger passion for your desired goal. Success and failure have a relationship in which you can learn from your mistakes but later succeed.

The fact that you’ve made positive changes in the past is a good reminder that you have the personal strengths to make similar changes whenever you wish. All you need is the awareness that you’re off course and the motivation to make new choices.

Here we go again with resolutions. Our favorite part of new year. The next paragraphs are my simple resolution. My resolution are jogging for 30 minutes everyday, spend more time with friends and family, get a higher gpa. Every year I make my simple resolution, but only keep one or two of them. But not this year I am going to keep all of my resolution. So let's get started.

At the start of a new year, everyone makes a resolution to change something or make it better. This year, I have three resolutions I want to focus on; working harder in school, staying active, and to think more positively.

Most goals I make in the beginning of the year is the same goals I make for every year because I always forget it by the second week as January. As a result, I will get a mini notebook to write all the my goals down, so I get a friendly reminder to try to work towards that goal and won’t forget it anymore.

Progress made toward goal (list specific steps taken & include notes about your motivation and results):

Realizing that you’ve failed something is hard to do. No one wants to accept defeat, and that's a flaw that most people have. Failure isn’t always negative. However, it isn’t always easy to apply this concept to your own situation either. When we think of failing, we think of not being good enough or not having the qualities needed to improve. We look down upon failure and defeat instead of seeing the raw potential it holds. If you feel hopeless when your goal isn’t accomplished the way you wanted it to be, there is no need to worry: it’s extremely natural to lose motivation when you’re standing face-to-face with disappointment or negativity. What you do have to keep in mind is that recovery can’t be reached without considering three major points: conviction, value, and motivation. Each failure is filled with more

With 2016 quickly coming to a close, it's fair to say that it's now a time for reflection, vision casting and goal setting. It's a time to look back and see what worked and what didn't work out. It's a time to review the overall vision of your life and how this year aligned with it. It's also a time to look toward 2017 and see what the next moves will be. One of the nice parts of preparing for the New Year is that there's a sense of hope and excitement about the future. However, there are three things you must remember as your set your 2017 goals and prepare for success.

Failure can feel devastating when you are living through the experience. I felt this way during one of the greatest failures in my life, failing to qualify for State History Day in my junior year of high school. This was my third History Day competition and I had previously qualified for State. While I entered the event with confidence from previous competitions and a final product that I thought was close to perfect, experiencing failure this time taught me how to strive for the best that I can be, persevere through tough times, and that sometimes your best isn't always the best.

* Be realistic about what you can do in a year. You can always carry activities over to another year 2013-14, 2014-15 and so on.

My second goal was to stop eating after 8 pm. This goal was definitely the most challenging but mainly because my parents didn’t get home till late and then my parents would try to make a meal and before you know it its already 8. A good amount of the time they were home to prepare something. I did try to make my own meals some of the time as well. The times I did eat before eight I felt better and noticed I was more determined to change. I would like to keep tackling this goal.

Failure for some, is one of the hardest things to come back from. When you do not succeed at something the first time around, you can develop false hope that you wont ever be able to accomplish that same goal, ever again. But it should be seen as the complete opposite. The effect of failing at a particular thing should give you even more drive and want to, achieve it. It shouldn't knock you down, but aspire you to be stronger and want what you are striving for, even more than you did before. I have gone through very many experiences where I have not received the outcome that I thought I deserved or wanted and I have felt like quitting. Knowing now that I didn't quit, makes the success of that one goal, that much better.

What is your new goal? What do you hope to achieve? Set yourself targets that will improve your performance in the future.

Lately I haven’t been pushing myself and doing what I say I am going to do. This year with a Grit and Growth mindset, I will achieve what I set out to accomplish. I find that if I have this mindset I am happier, get more done and stress less. I think using this mindset might even be healthier too! I have used this mindset in the past and it has proven to really work for

Even a small resolution, like having a protein shake once a week, can make someone happier and feel a real sense of accomplishment. New Year’s resolutions, when they are achieved or at least attempted, give people a goal and a chance to make an important change. This encourages people to feel hopeful about a goal, whether it is losing weight, eating better, or improving grades. Again, people will point out the disappointment that people may feel if they fail to follow through with their resolution. Although that may occur, the happiness that will result from achieving a goal will be very