by Alvos

Created on: August 24, 2009

As a new Year approaches, many of us take some time to prepare our New Year Resolutions as our voluntary obligations to accomplish.

I've been searching the web looking for articles that provide tips or guides to write New Year Resolutions and after reading a few I feel a little unsatisfied. I read some articles written by psychologists, universities and popular sites and they all stick to the same old fashioned rule: "keep it simple and feasible".

Everywhere I read I found quotes like "recognize your limits and prepare resolutions you can accomplish", "keep it real", "write resolutions that make sense", "stick to the plan", "write a plan", "go easy on you" and couldn't bear it anymore so I decided to write some tips so you can prepare New Year Resolutions that aim for the right direction.

With these tips I just want to present another point of view so you can have more options and choose the one that suits you the best.

Make "impossible" resolutions: Despite fighting constantly with my mom since I was a child because I have applied this concept to my entire life, I have always believed that being realistic is the same thing as being conformist or mediocre. Why thinking of boundaries? Why limiting yourself to things you know you can accomplish? I think that's not the way to go and I'm not going to leave it like that because it has to have an explanation in order to be a solid answer. Well, here it goes: Humans are lazy by nature. We almost never accomplish a goal because we tend to get bored. Discipline is the toughest habit you can achieve so to keep you motivated you always need to aim for the impossible.

By setting an impossible goal you will achieve more than you could achieve by setting a realistic one. No one knows itself too good to know one's boundaries. Trust me, I have tested myself with goals I've been called stupid for (even I called myself stupid for some of them) but without those goals I would have never achieved what I have, because you can never tell how far you can go by being realistic. Of course, you always have to have the attitude so you can truly believe you will achieve that impossible goal and never let yourself down when not achieving it. After all, you will be achieving more than you expected at the beginning. If you are skeptical about this try writing a realistic goal along with an impossible one, place it somewhere safe and forget about it. At the end of the year take your realistic goal out and compare it with what you accomplished

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