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so that you can see how you are progressing and improving. They assist you in planning your life so that you don’t live each day just reacting to everything that comes your way. How should you go about making resolutions that can We like to gloss over or preferably forget the negatives we experience, but in fact, we should learn from them so that we don’t make the same mistakes. So as painful or perhaps even embarrassing as it might be, review the past twelve months and those incidents or circumstances that were the real low-lights of your year, especially if they happened more than once. Ask yourself what role you played in causing them. What did you do or say that led you to find yourself in those situations? It might even impact your life meaning�lly?

be something that to some would seem quite trivial, like forgetting someone’s name. Perhaps you were late for an appointment and as a result missed what could have been a wonderful opportunity. Maybe you were asked to do something – by your boss, or a friend or family member – and forgot, with negative consequences. Or you had too much to drink at a party and made an idiot of yourself. Make a list of those things. become simple and practical resolutions. For instance, to remember someone’s name, determine to concentrate when being introduced and repeat the name to yourself several times, then write it down when you get home. To avoid being late for things, resolve to arrive at least ten minutes before the appointed time. A resolution to write down whatever you are asked to do will ensure you don’t forget. Now look at ways in which you could have avoided them. These

avoid any risk of getting tipsy! There are other kinds of resolutions too: those that you make as a self-improvement initiative or simply to do something that blesses someone every day. Let’s say you want to lose weight. Be realistic! Set achievable goals. Research the best nutrition plans for you and adopt those tips and hints that suit your character, lifestyle and metabolism. Don’t get over-ambitious in aiming to lose weight fast – it has been proven that, weight that is lost too quickly through crash diets is regained with alarming rapidity. Your resolution might be to improve your time management. Examine the activities that consume your time but contribute little to quality of life. For instance, how many hours a week do you waste watching meaningless television programmes? Eliminate those time-wasters. Those hours could be spent far more constructively.

Setting an absolute limit to the number of glasses you drink will

Get up half an hour earlier. Draw up a schedule of how you are

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