RESOLUTIONS
VS. GOALS

Setting Specific Goals

A general statement of "I resolve to be more organized this year," doesn't really give me anything specific to hang onto while I'm going about my daily life. But if I say something like, "Every night before I go to bed, I'm going to make sure the house is picked up and the dishes are all put away," I'll know exactly what I need to do to accomplish my goal.

This basic technique of stating specific goals, works well for kids, too. For example, my son desired to set a goal for the New Year of keeping his room cleaner.

Just saying, "I resolve to keep my room clean this year," doesn't help him grasp the practical steps he needs for success. But by having specific goals such as "Every night before bed, I'll make sure everything's picked up off the floor ... and every morning when I get up, I'll make my bed and put away my pajamas," he knows exactly what to do.

An Example Goal: Weight Loss

This past year, I accomplished a major goal: I lost 60 pounds! Although it wasn't a New Year's resolution (I began during the week of Easter), I still followed these same guidelines when I started my new eating plan.

Rather than saying, "My goal is to lose 60 pounds this year" (which would've been way too overwhelming for me -- I wasn't even sure I could successfully lose ten pounds at that point!), I said to myself, "My goal is to stick with this new eating plan diligently for four weeks. At the end of that time, I'll see if it's working for me. If it is, I'll continue the process for another four weeks and then reevaluated again at the end of that time."

Well, those first four weeks became ten months ... and by simply setting a realistic goal of sticking with the plan for a relatively short period of time, I lost a considerable amount of weight -- and three dress sizes! Plus, I have more energy and fewer bouts of colds and flu -- all because I set small, specific goals rather than making a number of larger, non-specific resolutions.

I know people are going to write and ask what weight-loss plan I used, so here's a link to the book (for the curious):

'Eat, Cheat, and Melt the Fat Away' http://snurl.com/jlv

This particular eating plan worked well for me because I was never hungry, I ate until full at every meal (and I had snacks!), and I didn't have to measure serving sizes, watch calories, or count grams of anything. Some of the food-combining rules were a little mind-boggling at first, but after I discovered the handy one-page "cheat sheet" in the back of the book, the whole program became much easier to figure out.

But please don't think you have to run out and buy the same book I used to make this idea work. A friend of mine has started using this same simple process of losing weight (setting one small goal at a time and then re-evaluating regularly along the way) by following a completely different weight-loss program that made more sense for her lifestyle and food choices.

So if your New Year's goal is weight loss, be sure to choose something you think you'll be able to stick with for a fairly long period of time. Don't choose some "lose-20-pounds-in-10-days-by-eating-coconuts-and-diet-pills" type of program. Nobody can eat like that for any length of time and remain healthy. Look for a healthy way of eating that will allow you to stick with it over the long haul.

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