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Tips for New Year's Resolution Success From "100 Simple Secrets of Successful People
1. We all make New Year's resolutions, but within weeks, many of us have given up on what we resolved to do. What should you take into account when making resolutions?
Change is not easy, but it's possible, IF you set realistic goals for yourself.
Fact: The decision to make a change offers wonderful feelings of control and optimism, but those are short-lived if the change is not accomplished. Repeated efforts as self-change, if we have unrealistic ideas about the payoff and how quickly we can change, actually reduce satisfaction with our lives by 40 percent.
The way to keep motivated is to set goals that are not too out of reach or too easy to attain. For example, if your New Year's resolution is to lose 30 pounds, plan out a realistic time frame, and don't forget to let yourself splurge every so often.
Fact: For 87 percent of us, declarations of self-change produce a temporary improvement in self-image followed, in a few weeks, by disappointment, which make our self-image worse than it was before the declaration.
Seize the day - don't shoot for the moon, but DO try to do something that's meaningful to you.
Fact: When asked to describe significant regrets in their lives, more than eight out of 10 people focused on actions they did NOT take, rather than actions they did.
2. Realistic New Year's Resolutions that will make a big difference in your life:
Eat more fruit.
Fact: Eating more fruit is associated with a number ofpositive life habits that contribute to both health and happiness, and eating more fruit is associated with an 11 percent higher likelihood of feeling capable and satisfied.
Try taking a walk a couple of times a week.
Fact: Regular exercise, including brisk walks, directly increases happiness 12 percent, and can indirectly make a dramatic contribution to improving self-image.
Resolve to stay in bed longer!
Fact: How much and how well you sleep both contribute to health, well being, and a positive outlook. For those who sleep less than eight hours, every hour of sleep sacrificed results in an 8 percent less positive feeling about their day.
3. How do you make your New Year's resolutions stick?
Don't forget to reward yourself for the small victories:
Fact: Comparing people who tend to give up easily with people who tend to carry on, even through difficult challenges, researchers find that persistent people spend twice as much time thinking - not about what has to be done, but about what they have already accomplished, the fact that the task is doable, and that they are capable of it.
Keep your goals where you can see them.
Fact: Successful people spend at least 15 minutes every day thinking about what they are doing and can do to improve their lives.
Synopsis
What are the keys to success? Scientists have studied the traits, beliefs, and practices of successful people in all walks of life. But the answers they find wind up in stuffy academic journals aimed at other scientists.
The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People takes the best and most important research results from over a thousand studies and spells out the key findings in ways we can all understand. Each entry contains advice based on those findings, a real life example of what to do or not to do, and a telling statistic based on scientific research.
Synopsis
From the author of The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People comes this remarkable new book that distils the latest and most important research to date on success into accessible and valuable advice. This book offers 100 straightforward, practical examples all backed by scientific research on how we can achieve success.
What are the keys to success? Scientists have studied the traits, beliefs, and practices of successful people in all walks of life. But the answers they find wind up in stuffy academic journals aimed at other scientists.
The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People takes the best and most important research results from over a thousand studies and spells out the key findings in ways we can all understand. Each entry contains advice based on those findings, a real life example of what to do or not to do, and a telling statistic based on scientific research. Engaging and enlightening, this is the perfect gift for friends and family all year round and especially at graduationa winning combination of practical advice backed by scientific facts.
Synopsis
What are the keys to success? Scientists have studied the traits, beliefs, and practices of successful people in all walks of life. But the answers they find wind up in stuffy academic journals aimed at other scientists.
The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People takes the best and most important research results from over a thousand studies and spells out the key findings in ways we can all understand. Each entry contains advice based on those findings, a real life example of what to do or not to do, and a telling statistic based on scientific research.
About the Author
David Niven, Ph.D., bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series, is a psychologist and social scientist who teaches at Ohio State University.
David Niven, Ph.D., es el autor de los bestsellers internacionales Los 100 Secretos de la Gente Exitosa, y Los 100 Secretos de las Buenas Relaciones. Es psicólogo y científico social, y enseña en la Florida Atlantic University.