Every year, we make resolutions, and most years we break them. Let's not continue to set ourselves up for failure.
Rather than being swept away with January-style new year, resolutions, resolutions for this new financial year will be a bright idea. Positive and achievable resolutions will help you make lasting changes in your behaviour. The key is to take a goal-setting approach.
A few tips:
- don't set business development or practice goals where you are not fully committed and motivated to change - ambivalence will cause you to relapse into your old habits
- willpower alone won't achieve your goal - changing your behaviour involves changing attitudes and beliefs (cognitive change) and is a process of unlearning harmful, unhelpful or "bad habits" - your maladaptive behaviour needs to be replaced with an adaptive behaviour, or a useful one.
In formulating resolutions for this new financial year, work through this process:
- consider - "do I really want to change ?"
- make sure it's positively driven - "am I motivated to change ?" and "what are the benefits for me to change ?"
- plan the change - "what steps are necessary to facilitate it ?"
- plan - "what steps must I take to change ?"
- maintain it - "how can I stop slipping back into old habits ?" and "how can I prevent a relapse into the ways of the past ?"
For workshops or one on one coaching to make a positive start please get in touch.
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