Let’s Get Started On Those Resolutions… 29

by Burt Goldman

Hi Friends,

After pub­lish­ing yesterday’s blog post, I’ve received quite a num­ber of New Year Res­o­lu­tion com­mit­ments from my dear readers…

Some of you want to lose weight. Some of you want to take your hob­bies to the next level. Some of you want to become bet­ter peo­ple. Some of you want to develop new good habits.

I’ve gone through all of your com­mit­ments, and I know that each and every one of them is 100% pos­si­ble — as long as you believe in your­self as much as I believe in you.

Now before we go even one step fur­ther, let me make this very clear:

I take these com­mit­ments very seri­ously, and I expect you to do no less than take mas­sive action towards your res­o­lu­tions. And since we have both made a com­mit­ment, we’re now in this together.

Remem­ber the 3 Ene­mies of New Year Res­o­lu­tions I talked about yesterday?

We’ve already dealt with the first, which was the commitment.

Today, we’re going to deal with the sec­ond enemy:

2. You don’t know where to start

Know­ing where to start may seem daunt­ing at first. Let me give you an example.

Weight loss is a very pop­u­lar New Year Res­o­lu­tion, so let’s use that as a case study.

Let’s say you want to lose 30 pounds in 2010. You know more or less how to get there — you’re going to have to lose weight, exer­cise more, and change your eat­ing habits.

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But the fact is, none of this can hap­pen overnight. You’re not going to lose 30 pounds in a week, a month, or even 2 months. Try­ing to do so wouldn’t just be unre­al­is­tic — it may even be unhealthy!

And what hap­pens if you try to do it any­way? You get demo­ti­vated. You begin to think your goal is unre­al­is­tic. You lose hope, and slowly but surely move back to your com­fort zone.

Instead, you should start by mak­ing small and grad­ual lifestyle changes. The idea here is to move towards your goal in a sus­tain­able man­ner, so you remain moti­vated, and don’t get scared by how big and scary your goal may be.

How do you do this? You break down your one big res­o­lu­tion down into a col­lec­tion of mini res­o­lu­tions that give you small but con­stant reminders that you’re mov­ing towards your goal.

So if you want to lose 30 pounds, you could start in Jan­u­ary by cut­ting out snacks like potato chips, and mak­ing sure you take a brisk walk at least once a week.

Once you’ve spent a month or two get­ting used to this rou­tine, you could sign up at your local gym.

After that, you could com­mit to exer­cis­ing at least 3 times a week. You could buy your­self a bicy­cle and take up long dis­tance bik­ing. Maybe even take up mar­tial arts, or yoga.

…And because you com­mit­ted to a set grad­ual yet con­sis­tent steps, you’ll sud­denly real­ize you’ve lost that 30 pounds with­out ever hav­ing to stress about it!

My key mes­sage to you here is, big changes don’t hap­pen overnight — they hap­pen through small but con­sis­tent steps that add up over time to give you the results you want.

This doesn’t just apply to los­ing weight, it applies to any­thing you want to achieve in life.

Now, let’s apply this con­cept to your resolutions.

Take the res­o­lu­tions you com­mit­ted to yes­ter­day, and break them down into daily, weekly and monthly goals. You can choose your own pace, as long as you’re con­fi­dent that you can reach your goal by Dec 31st 2010.

Next, turn these mini goals into affir­ma­tions. For exam­ple, if you’re com­mit­ting to take a brisk walk at least once a week, write it down like this:

“I will take at least 1 brisk walk a week until Decem­ber 31st 2010″

This makes your big goal seem more man­age­able, doesn’t it?

The good news is, daily, weekly and monthly goals only get eas­ier the longer you stay com­mit­ted to them — which means after a while, you’ll actu­ally be look­ing for­ward to those weekly walks!

Tomor­row, we’re going to con­front the third and final Enemy of New Year Res­o­lu­tions. Stay tuned :)

Sin­cerely,

Burt

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29 Comments on “Let’s Get Started On Those Resolutions…” - Post your own?

Rose says

Dear Burt, I’m going to try this exercise,good idea, thanks for your advice. Never thought of it. I need to lose 50 pounds. I’m cut­ting back the snacks will be try­ing so hard to eat more vegies,fruits which I find very hard to do, so used to the fat­ten junk.

Love you always, take good care, God bless you!

Lou says

Dear Burt,

I love you! I look for­ward to review­ing your mes­sages and your Dear Burt ses­sions over and over again every evening.

I have been doing the water ener­giza­tion and many minor prob­lems have dis­ap­peared from my life. Now I run to pour a glass of water any­time I encounter a dif­fi­culty. Thank you.

Please keep teach­ing us.

adelaida says

Hi Burt,

I am won­der­ing about my com­ments which I can­not find it after I posted.

Was it for pri­vate use only?

Thanks a lot Burt.
adelaida

adelaida says

Hello Burt,

Many thanks for your many very use­ful tips/advise. Yes, I nor­mally can­not give a one hun­dred com­mit­ment but I am going back into it. I am talk­ing of the sim­ple exer­cise I set for myself.

The desire is always there but, the time ele­ment is the issue that I can­not do it con­sis­tently, except my
meditation.

Thanks for your deep com­mit­ment to remind us all and your desire for the best for all whom you love even just from a dis­tant but vir­tu­ally being in communion.

Have a won­der­ful Week end Burt.
adelaida

Lucia says

Thank You Burt! My daugh­ter and I decided to do the 30 day chal­lenge on Wii. You are absolutely right about tak­ing it one step at a time. Hav­ing a buddy to exer­cise with helps too. We decided to look at the weeks sched­ule and jot down when we should meet to work­out. It has been work­ing out great so far.
One step at a time and in the moment of that time will cre­ate good habits. Mov­ing in the right direction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ravena says

Dear Burtt
Greet­ings
I am sin­cerely read­ing you and found a help­ful advices from you.When ever you come to my coun­try India please visit my place also.I want to meet you per­son­ally.
With regards
Ravena

Michael Sechrest says

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paul says

I don’t seem to be able to get into med­i­ta­tion the way that I would like to.I want to be more enlightned.

Patricia Hudak says

Thanks this is uplift­ing. I don’t need to diet now, lost a lot of weight 3 years ago after a bout of Ver­tigo. My focus now is keep­ing off the weight and eat­ing health­fully. I will encour­age any­one the to never give up on the com­mit­ment to lower their weight. You feel so much bet­ter, enjoy shop­ping for clothes and have so much more energy and this trans­fers into your daily atti­tudes about life. You are hap­pier and under con­trol of what you eat and how your exer­cise to keep your heart healthy as well. Stay well, love read­ing your posts. Pat Hudak

Marilyn R Williams says

Hi Burt — You are right and this blog is part of the syn­chronic­ity in my life!

Just yes­ter­day while help­ing a friend, we talked about how to tackle her goal and I said “small steps. One thing at a time and you’ll be done before you know it.”

Then she found a for­tune cookie that said the same thing! And, today, my horo­scope said. “Don’t be impa­tient. Tak­ing lots of lit­tle steps works bet­ter now than one giant leap.”

I love when stuff like this hap­pens — I must be on the right road at last. :)

All my best,
Marilyn

MY res­o­lu­tions:
Con­tinue los­ing weight by chang­ing eat habits — at least 20# by the years end.

Set up my web­site and get vis­i­tors — this week!

Make money from an online business.

Go bank­rupt or win lots of money — whichever comes first.

Find Mr. Right!

That should keep me busy.

Daniel says

Such timely advice to me again, Burt. I have been expe­ri­enc­ing the chal­lenge of stay­ing with some­thing long enough to see it through. I now am feel­ing like I’m begin­ning to know more and more what I want and choose to work toward. I want to go back to school this year, among other things I have already been com­mit­ted to.

josi geloso says

dear burt.……which i miss on fri­day!! my res­o­lu­tion faor this year ..which means to me GOALS..an my goals every­day start with say­ing my prayers to always let the cre­ator of this world know that i always want to look up to him [uni­verse] with grat­itued an apprec­tion for my life an for those that enter my road to give me more knowl­edge of love an wis­dom as to how to take care of this body…well you’ve been on my road for 2years? an your still here every­day to help me not to give up…programming takes time for response..an you’ve taught me to FOCUS A PICTURE..which in time the PICTURE becomes reality…so my goal is to BELIVE that what i WANT for josi to have GROWTH ABUNDANTLY IN MY SPIRIT..HEART ..AN MIND…THANKS TO YOU AN THE UNIVERSE BURT…JOSI****

Carolyn says

Dear Burt, I have promised myself I will walk 2 miles every­day down our hill and back up…I have promised myself I will not eat junk food…I have promised myself I will eat healthy foods includ­ing fruits and veg­eta­bles in the proper purportions…I hope to lose 40 pounds this year! Sin­cerely, Carolyn

Brooke says

Burt, you are amaz­ing !!! You inspire me and oth­ers every sin­gle day! Thanks for all you do!!!!!

Linda Lackas says

Dear Burt,I have found the best tool to help any­ones health I have ever seen. It is called the wand, it deliv­ers zero point energy field through this wand. You can ener­gize water, food, and it seems like the body will cen­ter itself to a field of home­osta­sis, it negates negaitve energy fields. The body looks great from kir­lian pho­tos of before and after. Above is my web­site. This is fan­tas­tic for those who are unable to feel energy, but need phys­i­cal tools to help them achieve a bet­ter sense of health. Please feel free to go to my web­site. This will be a bless­ing for so many peo­ple. Thank you for all of your blogs, and I love all of the hints of Quan­tum Jump­ing. This wand is quan­tum energy real­ized. Bless­ings Linda

janet hudson says

i have a ques­tion for burt.
i am still heal­ing threw my own self help, where i have been inspired and aware of the qual­i­tys that i posses, but didnt know before whilst fol­low­ing peo­ple like your­self.
Ques­tion:
I would like to take up career paths in var­i­ous heal­ing ther­a­pys, and yoga traing­ing where do i start try­ing to define what ther­a­pys to start with and at what level

Kimberly Weinstein says

Im tired of get­ting ner­vous when I talk to peo­ple that makes me depressed and then I get more depressed what should I do. I can’t focus on what there say­ing because all I keep think­ing about is do I look nervous.

pamellapure says

Well here we GO!!!!!
1. NO SNACKS ( espe­cially at night) and a Walk in the morn­ing( first day is on)
2. Check­ing on line about air brushes for my face paint­ing
Since I have a few more res­o­lu­tions i feel that start­ing a lit­tle slow and work­ing up to all that I need to accom­plish is the best yel­low brick road to fol­low
My mantra
MY life is full of energy, my life is full of cre­ativ­ity , 2010 meets my goals.
I’m on the road Burt, i’m depend­ing on you to keep me from tak­ing wrong turns.
SEEING IS BELIEVING < BELIEVING IS TRUSTING, TRUSTING IS FULFILLING
Thank yoou for being here Burt
Pamellapure

mary says

I don’t make new year res­o­lu­tions because of the very fact that I don’t com­mit to any of them like you said maybe for a few days and then back to the same com­fort­able rou­tine, so it is best to not make new year res­o­lu­tions because I know myself, You are about the only com­mit­ment i make, I read what you have to say and prac­tice the advice that to me makes bet­ter sense , maybe because I am lazy. love ya burt

ml says

I intend to leave a very unhappy, hos­tile rela­tion­ship. It has pro­duced two won­der­ful chil­dren, both of whom are now adults. I have been avoid­ing mak­ing the deci­sion to start legal pro­ceed­ings. This time I have started, I intend to con­tinue with faith in a bet­ter future.

JL says

Dear Burt,

Thank you for shar­ing so much knowl­edge with us! I always look for­ward to learn­ing from you. Now I have one ques­tion. I’ve been try­ing to find a good way of heal­ing den­tal prob­lems such as cav­i­ties and gum dis­eases. Is there any par­tic­u­lar method(s) you would rec­om­mend to cure/heal den­tal issues?

Regards!
JL

David says

Good advice Burt. It is impor­tant for us to give our­selves time to accom­plish the major goals. Stay­ing com­mit­ted is the hard part. I can see where set­ting up, and achiev­ing, mini goals may be a good way to get pos­i­tive rein­force­ment mak­ing the big goal eas­ier to achieve. Thanks again!

pat says

Hi Burt. you chose my goal to com­ment on. Great advice. My prob­lem is stress eat­ing. my stress is real. help

Eugenia says

Dear Burt
You are right Burt.
I would not declare long term com­mit­ments if I would not be able per­form them. If you stop it, from some rea­son it will make you weak. It will bring guilt and dis­ap­point­ment then will stop to build up your strength and hap­pi­ness. This is the way to stag­na­tion and lower your­self. Burt is right it is bet­ter to declare short term res­o­lu­tions.
Live daily. Be present in the moment. Enjoy the moment. Hap­pi­ness in the moment build your future.
Eugenia

joan says

Hi Burt,
my new year res­o­lu­tion is try­ing to be more patience, I do get hyper­ac­tive and talk loud when I am angry,PLEASE GIVE ME SOME CLUES HOW TO CONTROL MY TEMPER jOAN

dr benson ubadinanwa anyaibe says

dear how are you pay­ing cash to the account i gave you all to estab­lish my bussi­ness head office in nige­ria is my ques­tions and if realy their is throught and real­ity in europe and amer­i­can not cheat­ings of black nations or black hair when great on line for i never belive all based on many rea­sons o for see in out side them for decades in sporitu­al­ity and are you with them or you fol­low want to hurt me on stream­ing sys­terms and poten­cials and tal­ents with oth­ers why are they delay­ing in build­ing my request in my city home town

R.Panneer Selvam says

Very prac­ti­cal approach. Thank you I will apply this to some other exer­cise, as i need not have reduce my weight

PAtrick says

Hi Burt,
I have 3 ques­tions for your next edi­tion of Dear Burt
Do you use sup­ple­ments ?
Do you exer­cise every day ?
Do you use DHEA ?
Regards,
PAtrick

Natalia says

That’s fan­tas­tic advice! Only one thing, though: in my expe­ri­ence, it works bet­ter if you affirm “I take at least 1 brisk walk a week…”, in the present tense. Good luck to all with your res­o­lu­tions! :-)

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