Introduction:
Happy New year
How many of you make New Year resolutions? How many of you
stick to your new year resolutions?
It’s not surprising to see lesser number of hands. As per
Research 90% of people give up their resolutions before end of January. And
guess what, majority of remaining 10% people give it up before end of the year.
Initial Enthusiasm seen in January vanishes soon just like a piece of butter
placed in a hot pan!!! Guess why???
Toast Master of the Day, Fellow Toast Masters today I will share some tips with you to reach at new year resolutions
successfully.
Try “to GET” instead of “to GET RID OF
Majority of new year resolutions fail because people
desperately look to run away from some of their bad behavior or bad habit.
Instead of focusing on running away from something focus on running towards
something. Running away from something works only when you are chased by a
hungry dog.
When you try to unlearn any of your bad behavior or bad
habit, you think more about bad than good. For example while delivering a
speech if you think about nervousness more nervous you will. Instead focus on
how would you feel if you deliver the speech successfully.
Quit Smoking Resolution
Quit Smoking is one of the prominent new year resolution for
those who want to fly away their stress through smoke. Zig Ziglar a powerful
motivational speaker was three pack a day smoker, cigar was just like sixth
finger in his hand. He took a new year resolution to quit smoking. I think he
was so passionate about the resolution he took same resolution for more than 20
years. He tried many ways from applying patches to destroying the matches but
he could not break the grip.
Finally he changed his approach. Instead of focusing on
quitting smoking he developed a dream to become non-smoker. He loved the idea
of breathing clean air instead of smoky. He wanted his body and clothes to
smell nice instead of smoky. He started act like a non-smoker and think like a
non-smoker. Once the thinking took hold of him he simply quit smoking.
Avoid Procrastination:
Another popular New Year resolution is to avoid
procrastination. People procrastinate for cover up their short comings. There
is always a tendency to delay the things. If we see the task to be completed is
very lengthy or tall to complete in a give time make it into shorter. Try to do
it in time instead of delaying. Yesterday is history tomorrow is mystery, today
is gift. Do the things now itself and avoid procrastination.
Same way urge to eat even though you don’t need to eat. Urge
to eat is a mind game than of physical need. People should eat to live instead
of live to eat. Eat healthy live
healthy.
My Experience:
Once you develop a new habit or took a new resolution how to
stick to it? Take the help of friends and spouse. They will sincerely help you.
I will tell you my own experience. Last year I took a new
year resolution to get up early in the morning and do jogging. I told my wife
about my resolution, she started waking me up at 5 in the morning and she is
going back to sleep. I was very happy that my wife is so much supportive about
my resolution. Do you know the real reason? I do snore a lot while sleeping, if
wakes me up at 5 in the morning she can have few hours of peaceful sleep in the
morning.
So your friends and spouse will help you in reaching your
goal if not for selfless reasons at least for their selfish reasons. And also
they will get a share of credit if you succeed in your resolution.
Conclusion:
New Year resolutions are easy to make but difficult to
sustain. As per a survey it takes 3 weeks to develop a new habit and it takes 6
months to make it part of your life. And it takes just a week to give it up
completely. Giving up is so easy. Focus on what you want to become instead of
what you don’t want to become. Take the help of friends and spouse, just like I
did. I am sure you will reach all your resolutions successfully in the year
2013.
Over to you the Toast Master of the Day.
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