How To Create Achievable New Years Resolutions With NLP

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Why Do New Year’s Resolutions Fail?

New Year’s Resolutions are made in anticipation of the New Year and in new beginnings. A New Year’s resolution is a commitment that a person makes to one or more personal goals, projects, or in the reforming of a habit. The problem with New Year Resolutions is that they are often made because it is a tradition. Even when the goal stated is something that is important to the individual, it is often made on the spur of the moment, and without the respect and planning that the goal needs in order to be achieved.

Goals are an important aspect of human experience, and can be described through the individual’s desires, dreams or aspirations. Positive goal setting can bring about a phenomenal change in a person’s life, and achieving goals can become a pleasurable experience.

Top Tips for Keeping New Year’s Resolutions:

1. Make sure you have a goal beyond the goal, this is one thing that causes many people slip up or go backwards, after achieving their goal. They have nothing to move towards after achieving it, experiencing a sinking feeling because it has all finished. Some people will even put off completing their goal so that they still have something to aim for.
2. Make sure you say it in the positive-Say It As You Want It! Rather than to ‘lose weight’ be ’10 stone’.
3. Make the outcome sensory specific so that you can really feel it, you can see what you will see, hear what you will hear and see those doors opening after you have achieved it.
4. Don’t spread yourself to thin, make only one New Year Resolution, so many people make multiple New Year Resolution then wonder why they cannot keep up with them.
5. Ideally don’t wait till New Year’s Eve to make it or give yourself time to really consider and plan it before you start it. If you plan to reach a certain weight (lose weight) then start on the 2^nd of February, all those goodies in your cupboards will just make it harder for you!
6. Avoid making past resolutions because they always remind you of how you did not achieve it last time, or you slack off because you are already doing better than last time. Instead of reusing I am going to lose 2 stone, state; It is the 30^th of April 2012, I have lost on average 2lb a week since  the 2^nd February, through eating a healthy diet and exercising (add in either gym/walking/using the Wii), I look and feel great and everybody is saying how good I look.
7. Make sure it is well formed, use the SMART goal approach and ensure you have multiple ways of achieving it.
8. Do a personal check- Can you act ‘AS IF’ you already have achieved it? Try it on for size and really experience all the benefits of achieving the goal- If it does not feel right then maybe it needs tweaking or that it is not the goal for
9. Get motivated- if it’s a health based goal then list the health benefits or work, family, relationship benefits.
10. Go Public- the more people you tell the more you have to prove it too. Once you have written your New Year Resolution, sign it and date it, then place it in a prominent place in your house, even frame it. This will keep it at the fore front of your mind and of other peoples.
11. Be persistent-New behaviours take time to get in the muscle, they say it takes 18 times before it becomes a habit, so give it at least this long. New habits take time to learn, and once in a while you will slip up and revert to the old you. People on diets might suddenly give in to temptation, or those trying to exercise more might not find the time to go to the gym for a week. Remember that everyone messes up from time to time. Don’t blame yourself if you falter, or allow the experience to make you give up.
12. A goal should lead to a better life for you, that is, a goal is easy to achieve as your new life schedules it in, it becomes part of who you are and what you enjoy thus becoming easier the more you perform and integrate it into your life, instead of giving up half way through.

“A goal is nothing more than a dream with a deadline”
Joe L. Griffith

The Difference That Creates Success!

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) has been described as the technology of the mind, the science of achievement, and the study of success. It is based upon the search for and the study of the factors which account for either success or failure in human performance. NLP is the study of human excellence, focusing on the difference that makes the difference, in a successful outcome.

NLP provides the tools and techniques required to assist individuals in driving towards what he or she wants to achieve and assesses how their life is currently. Reviewing the direction in which the individual wants to take their life and what he or she wants to accomplish. By establishing these facts before planning any goals the individual can evaluate all the different aspects surrounding his or her life goals before settling on them. This ensures that the goals which are set are ecological, achievable, realistic and appropriate for the individual.

New Year resolutions are goals which people may wish to make, motivated by the coming of a New Year and the end of an old. Almost giving the individual permission to let go of the past and motivate him or her to look towards the future. Make New Year resolutions-AND KEEP THEM USING NLP! is an extract from Psychobabble: A strait forward, plain English guide to the Benefits of NLP.

Make New Year resolutions-AND KEEP THEM USING NLP! Is a textbook that takes the reader through the goal setting process, firstly ensuring that the goal is well-formed and then teaching the individual how to visualize his or her goal. Visualization makes the goal real, boosting the individual’s motivation to achieve the goal that they have set for themselves.

Donna Blinston

Learn From The Expert!

Donna Blinston is a certified trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and the founder of Inspirational Solutions in your hands consultancy, trained by the only recognized trainers of NLP accredited by Kingston University. Inspirational Solutions started out as a one on one life coaching consultancy service, as the business has progressed additional partners with Business, HR and ICT backgrounds have been enlisted to develop Inspirational Solutions into the bespoke training and consultancy organisation it is today.

Donna Blinston is a Registered Nurse, with a specialty in Gastroenterology, the Liver and in Blood-borne viruses. As a Certified Trainer of NLP she uses the tools and techniques of NLP to build a professional relationship with and enhance the lives of her patients to promote good health and wellbeing. Donna also has incorporated her training to help people in the areas of leadership, self-help, practice development and life coaching.

The Interview

Tune in to this segment of The NLP View Radio Show, as host, Donna Blinston author of Make New Year Resolutions-AND KEEP THEM USING NLP! discusses with June Stoyer, how she uses NLP to ensure goal success. December the 29th, 2012 at 7pm EDT/4pmPST! Stay Tuned!