I created my resolution sheet for the year. Rather than make a list of resolutions and lament what I did not accomplish, in 2015 I made a list of goals that I wanted to accomplish and assigned a point value to each one--ideally with more challenging goals receiving more points. I am supposed to reflect at the end of each month and tally these numbers on the sheet that I created. I was so bad at doing this in 2019 that I stopped the practice entirely for a the past several years, but I decided that I wanted to give it a try again.
As forgetting to log the points at the end of the month was part of the reason for this project's downfall in the past, I have made that one of the three new goals that I've added to the list. The other two include exercising for at least 15 minutes on four different days during a week (determined walking counts--anything that logs as "exercise" on my FitBit) and organizing a year's worth of blog postings (which was a failed resolution from last year as I have over three years of catching up to do). These replace my goals of reading scholarly journals for my dissertation and the writing of my dissertation which had been on these sheets from 2016 through 2019.
I know from both research and experience that setting goals is most beneficial if those goals can be tracked and reflected upon at regular intervals. Using those goals in a positive manner (such as through the earning of points) is also more successful in bringing about change than tracking failure (although, I've still kept my weight goal on this--which has led to the use of negative numbers in the past). I'm also intentionally setting a higher goal (200 points) for the year. Part of this is because of the added points that could potentially come from the exercise goal, but part of this is because I want to have the incentive to stretch a bit this year.
I'm feeling rather positive about this at the moment--I certainly would like that positivity to continue throughout the year.
As forgetting to log the points at the end of the month was part of the reason for this project's downfall in the past, I have made that one of the three new goals that I've added to the list. The other two include exercising for at least 15 minutes on four different days during a week (determined walking counts--anything that logs as "exercise" on my FitBit) and organizing a year's worth of blog postings (which was a failed resolution from last year as I have over three years of catching up to do). These replace my goals of reading scholarly journals for my dissertation and the writing of my dissertation which had been on these sheets from 2016 through 2019.
I know from both research and experience that setting goals is most beneficial if those goals can be tracked and reflected upon at regular intervals. Using those goals in a positive manner (such as through the earning of points) is also more successful in bringing about change than tracking failure (although, I've still kept my weight goal on this--which has led to the use of negative numbers in the past). I'm also intentionally setting a higher goal (200 points) for the year. Part of this is because of the added points that could potentially come from the exercise goal, but part of this is because I want to have the incentive to stretch a bit this year.
I'm feeling rather positive about this at the moment--I certainly would like that positivity to continue throughout the year.
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