A New Look at Resolutions

It's Mindset Monday and tomorrow is the last day of 2024 already! Seems wild, but here we are!

If you're like millions of other humans, you might be thinking about what your intention word is for the coming year, or pondering what resolution you'll make tomorrow to take with you into 2025.

Whatever you come up with, I want to invite you to consider incorporating the following idea along with it, to greatly increase your odds of success.

Make a plan for the PROCESS, rather than simply choosing the outcome.

The definition of resolution is "a firm decision to do or not to do something" which is great, but if you only focus on the outcome, which you can't always control, you're never fully wielding your agency.

Let's say your resolution is, "This year I'm going to Italy no matter what!" or "This year I'm going to finally lose that extra body fat!" and yet you don't clearly lay out a process plan to achieve the outcome you want. Well you're probably destined to fail.

However, if you take action to set up an automatic bank transfer from your checking to your savings each month, research flights to Rome every Sunday morning, and download an app to practice learning Italian for 15 minutes a week, that's a process plan and committing to it IS THE THING that creates the likelihood of you actually achieving your goal of taking an Italian vacation. You create a process and you take action on the process steps consistently.

You can do the same with the resolution to lose body fat. If you make a PROCESS plan for the way you will eat, move and sleep and then consistently execute on each of those, you'll see results!

When you CONTROL and COMMIT to the process, the outcome takes care of itself.

The biggest problem most people face is not CREATING a process, it's COMMITTING to it. The answer to that problem is "scaffolding" which will support you as you get accustomed to your new process actions.

Examples of scaffolding might be setting recurring calendar appointments with yourself, digital reminders, sticky notes, and external accountability to someone else. All these little structures help keep you consistently committed to the process which paves the way to the outcome you desire.

You can be your best self and live your best life if you choose to. No matter what your goal, if you'd like to use me as your coach and accountability partner in the new year, just text me back and we'll talk about it!

Congratulations on making it through the challenges of the past year, and may we all enjoy peace, health and abundance of all good things in 2025!

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