There is no doubt about it, New Year’s Resolutions are a powerful tool to achieve goals, yet only a few follow up and follow through on their resolutions..*
Why is that?
One simple reason is that most people forget that decisions are made every minute of every day and they add up at the end of the week/month/year. Non-decisions are the same – the decision NOT made to put your runners on to go for a run. The decision NOT to turn down the (extra) piece of pie. The decision NOT to get up early.
“It is in the moments of INdecision
that dreams are destroyed.”
— Dr Marc Dussault
If you made a list of New Year’s Resolutions for 2012 – take them out right now and re-commit yourself to following through.
If you’re not motivated – the problem is you have impotent goals and dreams.
You need something that will MOTIVATE, INSPIRE and MOVE YOU TO ACTION.
Pick something exciting, but within the realm of possibility – something you can really get enthused about – something that would CHANGE you and your life.
I know too many “people who end up where they don’t want to be” simply through lack of planning and commitment.
No decision IS a decision – it’s the worst one of all – one made by someone else for all the wrong reasons.
There is no joy in living a life by default. To live a life by design, you need to know what YOU want and desire.
You decide.
By NOT deciding, all you’re doing is letting yourself down – no one cares that you don’t make a decision. That’s why it’s so easy.
One day leads to a week then to a month and before you know it, another year has passed.
If you get lulled into complacency, a whole decade can pass you buy.
That’s tragic.
Don’t just sit there – do something!
Anything! If you didn’t create a list of New Year’s Resolutions – do it now!
New Year’s Resolutions… they are aspirational, yet often vague and almost always corrective. People promise to spend more time with family, get fit, lose weight, quit smoking, reduce debt, consume less alcohol… yet just end up cataloguing the failings of the past year. As with most customs, New Year’s Resolutions are observed in gesture only, not followed up nor followed through. It’s a reflexive act rather than one of resolution or commitment.
People have been making New Year’s Resolutions since the time of ancient Rome, when the Julian Calendar was adopted in 45 BC. January 1 was introduced as the first day of the year after the Roman God, Janus (pictured left). Janus was the God of beginnings and endings, represented with two faces looking toward the future as well as the past.
Romans, believing that the gods witnessed the failures and shortcomings of the past year made promises to rectify the situation in the next year ahead.
Not surprisingly, 88 percent of New Year’s Resolutions fail.
One of the reasons is that people tend to make the same ones over and over and over again without conviction or belief they can really change. Statistically, it takes up to 10 attempts to change which is well beyond most people’s attention span let alone level of discipline to make the change a reality.
Alarmingly, research shows that 25% of 1 out of every 4 people give up in the first WEEK.
Most people, quizzed today would not even be able to list all of their New Year’s Resolutions… and we’re not even at the end of January!
So why is the prognosis so poor? One reason is that success is limited, yet most people (wrongly) believe it is achievable (when statistically it’s not – only 1 person can win a Gold Medal amongst hundreds of competitors).
Take quitting smoking as an example: It takes 6 to 12 attempts to stop smoking. One survey in 2008 reported that only 11%, 1 out of 9, people who set that as a New Year’s Resolution achieved their goal and stopped smoking.
There is hope – people who did achieve their New Year’s Resolutions did so, on average after 6 attempts.
To achieve your New Year’s Resolutions, you need a plan, simple as that. Ideally, you write a PLEDGE to yourself and you marshal help from others close to you who can help you.
For example, if you want to get fit, get a buddy to walk or run with you, play a sport… If you want to lose weight, have family members help by reducing fatty or high calorie foods in your meals.
Without a plan, nothing’s going to change.
The odds are stacked against you.
Of course as you’d expect, there is a way to stack the odds in your favour… CLICK HERE -> To Make Next Year Your Best Year Ever.
New Year’s Resolutions are one of the easiest ways to set the wheels of success in motion. They can be the catalyst to create your ultimate dream destiny…
“What if…”
What if… your childhood dreams actually came true…
What if… you could wave a magic wand and get anything you want…
What if… you could rub Aladdin’s Lamp and get any 3 wishes granted…
What if…
Those are two very powerful words.
Here’s the thing.
Some people get what they want while others don’t.
- It’s infuriating to know someone dumber than you is out-performing you in business or school.
- It’s aggravating to have someone less physically capable beat you at your favorite sport.
- It’s perplexing to see someone who started with less money than you build a ‘fortune’ that allows them to have the luxurious, stress-free lifestyle you’d like to have.
What if… you could learn how to accomplish all your goals?
What if… it took less than 5 minutes a week to implement?
What if… the strategies were proven and tested?
What if… they cost LESS than going to McDonald’s?
Just let yourself imagine those words.
Let your thoughts wander.
Listen to what you would say in the privacy of your own mind.
Feel what it would be like to have those things most important to you.
What if… You believed it was possible.
What if… You learned the strategies, techniques and tips you need.
What if… You applied them, one day at a time.
What if… You achieved one goal, then another, then another.
How different would your life be?
How much more could you do and contribute to others?
What if… you had a system to make them all come true?
What if… I gave you the link – would you make 2012 your best year ever?
Why not give yourself this gift?
* This is why New Year’s Resolutions are so important to me…
At first, I didn’t buy into the whole New Year’s Resolution ‘propaganda’. Like most people, I was skeptical, cynical and thought it was all rubbish.
Then I met someone who explained that New Year’s Resolutions only work if you believe they do.
That changed everything.
I promised myself I would only pick the top 10 New Year’s Resolutions I believed I could accomplish and really wanted.
My life changed – literally from that moment on.
As I explain in My Best Year Ever Program page – the results speak for themselves, but something you need to know is that it’s a process, a system for me. It’s not just a to do list.
Nothing with me is superficial.
The process I share with you in the My Best Year Ever Program is what I use every single year – religiously WITHOUT EXCEPTION.
I look forward to it BECAUSE I know I can craft my new destiny, my new life.
One of my recent resolutions I can share with you was writing the lyrics for and ‘producing’ my rap album- Curve-A-Ceous.
It was one of the highlights of the year for me. I never dreamt of being a rockstar, but I was always curious about the creative aspect of song writing, producing and performing.
I perform every time I get on stage for my events and workshops, but this was a much more artistically creative endeavour.
Something totally outside my comfort zone.
Something totally different.
It was exhilarating to do.
The reason I share this with you is because life is to be lived to its fullest extent.
Steve Jobs was the epitome of this philosophy.
But so many people – too many people – don’t know where to start.
As per my 1 Percent Improvement Doctrine, I believe in small steps on the path to your ultimate destiny, keeping in mind that…
The journey IS the destination.
With New Year’s Resolutions it’s easy and with my program priced at $20.12 it’s a bargain.
It’s my gift to you because it’s one of the most powerful techniques I’ve used and continue to use to craft the life I have – “continuing to live my dream and empowering others to discover and live theirs”.
What’s the alternative?
You don’t do anything – you let things ‘happen’.
There are two kinds of people:
People who make things happen
and those that things happen to
Simple as that – you are either one or the other.
Sorry to be so blunt, but it’s true.
You know it, I know it.
Now it’s time for you to do something about it.
Psst! I want to share something else with you…
This is the end of January and you’d be amazed at how many people think they missed the opportunity to do their New Year’s Resolutions…
That’s typical of people’s limiting beliefs and why my Best year Ever Program is a rolling 52-week program that starts on DAY ONE.
This is the first day of the rest of your life…
I know MOST people don’t see things “this way”…
They are oblivious to the realisations and life-changing epiphanies that are there to be had.
As a PREMIUM CONTENT subscriber, I know you’re not one of these… “MOST PEOPLE”.
The reason MOST PEOPLE are this way is due to IGNORANCE and LACK OF FAITH/BELIEF/CONVICTION.
First is ignorance – they don’t know. They are not subscribed to the PREMIUM CONTENT and no one’s having this heart-to-heart with them.
Second, they don’t have the belief in themselves. They’ve been beaten down and have essentially given up.
It’s the saddest thing I see in ‘my line of work’ – to see someone give up on themselves.
It’s heartbreaking.
Years ago, I would champion the power of the human spirit.
Now, I don’t bother.
I focus on people who believe and WANT more – more joy, happiness, wealth, success and abundance.
Welcome to my world of Exponential Mindset Thinking!
If you come across anyone who is deserving and needs a nudge in the right direction, you could make the investment in THEM and subscribe them to the My Best Year Ever – Imagine how their lives could be transformed.
Now you’ll feel what I feel when I know someone’s engaged and involved in creating their ultimate destiny!
Pay it forward and reap the benefits for a lifetime!
Onward and upward!
Marc
Dear Marc,
I bought your book “Best grades with the least amount of effort” one year ago and it helped me a lot. I decided to reread it today to plan my year and improve my organisation and something amazing happened, it was as if it was new book.
I realized that a lot of my mentor’s principles were written in your book. And I began to grasp why he said that we have to learn from the best and only the best and that we have to be coachable. Maybe he is your mentor too, because you use the same phraseology.
Have a great day
Farida
Hi Farida,
I’m glad you re-read my study book. You are correct – every time you re-read a book like this one, it can be new because what you you didn’t know previously, you now know and therefore something else comes to the forefront.
As for the principles, mine come from several sources. I created a Words Of Wisdom booklet.
Cheers!
Marc